Jake closed the other thread, but I did want to reply to this:
I wasn't sidestepping. I just felt that exchanging barbs with you was a higher priority at that point, since you were being an equally ignorant jerk.by KonaBlend » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:45 am
I'm wondering if you'll address why you are ignorantly classifying a feature request as "simple" and oblivious to the true complexities of the task. Or you can go on sidestepping that faux pas and trolling in an attempt to mask it.
In any event, I would like to explain my characterization of the request as "simple", because it may help you see how unnecessarily negative and reactionary you guys often are on this forum, in that you seem to absorb every comment or criticism of Handbrake offered by its users (or "moochers of free software" ) as an insult, rather than as enthusiastic feedback and constructive criticism. (Actually, I have no illusions that what I'm writing will help you improve yourself, but I'll say it anyway since you invited me to reply).
When I said it would be "simple", I meant: Considering the complexity of Handbrake as a whole, and considering how intelligent (spoken sincerely, not sarcastically) you guys are, having reached so many other milestones with Handbrake over the years (I've been around here since the early days of Mediafork and witnessed many of those goals achieved), and considering how dedicated the dev team is to improvements, and considering how Jake has already written code to parse XML presets, it seemed as though it would be relatively simple by comparison with all those past accomplishments to implement the idea I suggested, which is to have the GUI display an equivalent CLI string based on the GUI settings.
The word "simple" was, in essence, intended as a compliment. I just didn't spell it out for you by writing a long preamble filled with gooey praise. I didn't know (or rather, I forgot), that I was dealing with apparent neurotic teenagers who have serious self-confidence issues.
I understand it would be work to implement the feature request I suggested, but I assumed, I guess wrongly, that based on your skills, it wouldn't be particularly challenging - perhaps merely tedious; but worthy, since it would bridge the learning curve gap between the GUI and CLI rather intuitively, and assist the less technical GUI users with the task of making good use of the CLI.
Considering how many requests for support there are on these forums regarding the CLI syntax, this feature I've suggested would save you TONS of time, energy and bandwidth. It's strange that you don't consider that.
Perhaps you want those kinds of questions, because without them, you would miss all the opportunities that present themselves daily for you guys to be flaming sarcastic chastising holier-than-thou pendejos whenever you reply to the "n00bs" (not human beings) who are trying to figure out your software.
I understand the sync issue you referred to, but as I understand it, that issue already exists, hence the need for manicure to parse XML into CLI strings. You've got a sync problem inherent in the current architecture of these two totally "discreet" products (as you described them). My feature request doesn't exacerbate that problem. It merely highlights the flaw in Handbrake's current architecture. You are either going to have to fix it eventually, or Handbrake is going to be severely feature locked by virtue of its current design. What a shame.
In summary, I think you guys are smart in one sense, but equally stupid in many others. That's just my honest opinion KonaBlend, and I appreciate you inviting me to share it with you.
PS - In the end, the whole thing I was trying to accomplish (using my liberated ATV to run encodes whenever I'm not using it so I can put otherwise wasted CPU cycles to good use) was negated by the fact that 0.9.3 CLI, which requires Leopard, doesn't run on the ATV, which runs Tiger. I can encode DVD sources on the ATV, but not files. So, in the end, I ended up with half a solution. By virtue of your refusal to directly assist me in any way, I learned for myself how to use the svn, how to install the Ruby plist gem, and how to use manicure. Anybody can learn anything themselves. It's just nice when, God forbid, someone lends a hand now and then.
PPS - Now go ahead and lock this one up too Jake, 'cause I've said all I want to say. I will not burden you with any support or feature requests again.