Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 7/8] fftools/ffmpeg_demux: implement -bsf for input

[Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>]

Quoting Stefano Sabatini (2024-01-21 19:22:35)
> On date Sunday 2024-01-21 18:43:36 +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > Quoting Stefano Sabatini (2024-01-20 12:32:42)
> [...]
> > > When you present an example you usually start with an explanation
> > > (what it does) and then present the command, not the other way around.
> > 
> > I don't, neither does most literature I can recall. Typically you first
> > present a thing, then explain its structure. Explaning the structure of
> > something the reader has not seen yet is backwards, unnatural, and hard
> > to understand.
> 
> I still don't understand what "literature" you are referring to.

Various manuals and textbooks I've read.

> If you see most examples in the FFmpeg docs they are in the form:

Our documentation is widely considered to be somewhere between atrocious
and unusable (and sometimes actively misleading), so the fact that it
does something in a specific way does not at all mean that it's a good
idea.

I have also personally seen (and fixed) countless instances of
mindlessly perpetuated cargo cults in it.

-- 
Anton Khirnov
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