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lisamelton / other_video_transcoding

Other tools to transcode videos.
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Parameter to stop generation of log files #161

Open briangoodman opened 2 years ago

briangoodman commented 2 years ago

Don,

Is there an other_video_transcoding equivalent to video_transcoding's --no-log?

Thanks,

Brian

lisamelton commented 2 years ago

@briangoodman No, and that is by design. It was a mistake to add the --no-log option to my older transcode-video tool. I've written about this in many other issues and feature requests, but the tl;dr of it is that I grew tired of users disabling their .log, having something go wrong and then me being unable to diagnose their problem because, duh, there was no .log file to look at.

Seriously, other-transcode is a scriptable command line tool. If really you don't want the .log file it is trivial to simply rm the .log file after the transcode has successfully completed.

But there is a compelling reason to keep the .log around. That's why other-transcode comes packaged with the ask-ffmpeg-log utility that will display useful performance information extracted from .log files.

I'm sorry, but I do hope that at least this will answer any question you might have as to why there's no --no-log option.