opposite of parse

[Josh Doe]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 08:32 -0400, Josh Doe wrote:
>
>> Silly question: what's the opposite of parse? I'm working with a
>> proprietary video container that only stores uncompressed frames
>> (simple header, minimal footers). I've written *parse (using
>> GstBaseParse), but now I need to be able to write to this format. *enc
>> doesn't make sense, since there's no encoding, and likewise with *mux
>> since there's no multiplexing (only video frames stored, no audio).
>
> We tend to use 'enc' for that case as well, e.g. y4menc or wavenc.
>
> People have also suggested 'format', but it hasn't caught on. I think
> *mux or *enc is much more intuitive.

I'll go with that then, thanks!
-Josh