Re: status update

Hi!

Francesco Romani wrote:

> * rework multiplexor in order to support trasparently one or two
> multiplexor instance (think to y4m/wav pair, or pvn/wav or whatever).
> 
> The last one will become the only user-visible change. I plan to change
> again the commandline interface, moving from
> 
> -y vid_enc[,aud_enc[,main_mplex[,aux_mplex]]] -o main_out -m aux_out -N
> vid_fmt,aud_fmt
> 
> to
> 
> -y vid_enc[,aud_enc] -o main_mplex://main_out -m aux_mplex://aux_out -N
> vid_fmt,aud_fmt
> 
> or maybe even
> 
> -y video://vid_enc,audio://aud_enc [the rest unchanged]
> 
> the key advantage is that the order is now variable because the prefix
> specify the media type (video or audio), no longer the position. So, any
> of the following will be legal:
> 
> -y video://vid_enc,audio://aud_enc
> -y audio://aud_enc,video://vid_enc
> -y video://vid_enc
> -y audio://aud_enc
> 
> Again, I know changing the UI is annoying, but yet again I find the
> advantages far more outstanding than the disadvantages.
> 
> All the above impacts roughly equally the core and the modules.

Why not to use just something like:

-y vid_enc -ya aud_enc -ym main_mplex -o main_out -yam aux_mplex -oa aux_out

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