Re: MPEG encoders?

On Friday 01 July 2005 05:09 am, Brett McCoy wrote:
>
> Command-line tools are still very prevalent in Linux -- a lot of of the
> video tools especially work well in a command-line environment so they
> can be piped together in all kinds of crazy combinations, and work well
> as backends to a variety of interfaces (GUI, scripted, etc).  This has
> been the philosophy of Unix for decades -- make one tool that does only
> one thing and does it very well so it can be used in combination with
> other tools that do their one thing very well.  It's easy enough to plop
> a GUI over top this kind of thing.
>

Brett,
I second this.  Create a solid working tool once and use it in everything!

We have found that most of our clients love the fact that they can take any 
function(or tool) and use it aside from the GUI.  Kinda just the opposite of 
where they were 4 years ago. Go figure....

Best of luck to all

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