commit bbd8ee77641288bb9051c99bc90d294ec1baa7cb
parent 860d85841338e3532fb5dd2d5f3ba681675bd50d
Author: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 17:42:59 +0200
There is no reason to add support for pipes in blind-rewrite-head
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ Add [-j jobs] to blind-from-video and blind-to-video.
Add -f (framewise) to blind-repeat
-blind-rewrite-head: add support pipes
-
Generate a header file with the appropriate values for USING_BINARY32, USING_BINARY64.
long double is slightly faster than long.
long double (xyza q) could be added as another format.
diff --git a/man/blind-rewrite-head.1 b/man/blind-rewrite-head.1
@@ -57,10 +57,22 @@ This of course means that
cannot be used as there is not way to know
the geometry or format of the video if it does
not have a head.
+.SH RETIONALE
+.B blind-rewrite-head
+only support regular files because combining
+.BR blind-read-head (1),
+.BR blind-write-head (1),
+and
+.BR cat (1)
+is sufficient for doing the same operation on pipes,
+but not on regular files that are too large to store
+two copies of on disc.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR blind (7),
.BR blind-from-video (1),
-.BR blind-split (1)
+.BR blind-split (1),
+.BR blind-read-head (1),
+.BR blind-write-head (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Mattias Andrée
.RI < maandree@kth.se >
