Hi, On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> Its unprofessional to fail decoding a file but not provide any > hint as to why a failure occured. > [..] > Our code is already quite terse and devoid of comments and > documentation, error messages do not seem a exception here Both of these comments assume the error message that you're trying to add is in any shape, way or form helpful to end users. Unfortunately, it is not. Imagine that j-b saw the error message (compared to the generic "invalid data") and ask yourself if the utility was any different (again, compared to the generic "invalid data"). If not, then it shouldn't be an AV_LOG_ERROR message displayed to end users. Ronald _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
