On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 09:17 +0300, Vadim Druzhin wrote:
> > moreover, by leaving the `format://' specifier as option and by adding
> > some form of autoguessing (inferring the format from the extension it's
> > already pretty common) we can let thi things works _mostly_ as they do
> > today, and that's a plus.
>
> OK, then maybe this format will be more intuitive:
>
> -y vid_enc[+aud_enc][.main_mplex][/aux_mplex]
>
> With specific character as indicator ('+','.','/') each part can be optional,
> similar approach is used in X11 "-geometry" parameter
> (WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF).
>
> (I can't explain why, but I feel URL-like syntax in output parameters wrong.)
Although this syntax is already widely used, I'm fine using any other
separator like `:' `::' or anything else.
Moreover, I don't want to pack too much semantic in just one option, so
moving away some fields from `-y' (which is already overloaded enough
IMHO) it's also a plus.
Bests,
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