Re: Re: Call for partecipation!

Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:32:10PM +0100, Peter Ueger wrote:
> > 2008/3/25, Francesco Romani <[email protected]>:
> > >  We (I) had no interest in implement every possible format/codec in the
> > >  wild;
> > 
> > Why would you have to do that? Others have already done that for you,
> > don't they?
> > 
> > > nor we (I) want to make a framework, just an highly-modular tool
> > 
> > see above
> > 
> 
> transcode is interesting because of it's multi-process/multi-thread
> design.  ffmpeg will never be like that.  ffmpeg will never have the
> filtering capabilities, or third party extendibility that comes
> from being modular like transcode.
> 
> it's all about choices.
> 
> besides, one could argue, that since transcode uses ffmpeg, they really
> are already a joined force.

I know it irks some people, but '-x mplayer' even makes it possible
to do fantastic things with transcode that mencoder cannot do (hard
code elaborate styled text, logos, whatever, from .ass files,
for example) ;^)