Option --output-filename not working

[mjbrowns]

attempting to use the command

comskip --ini="myfile.ini" --output-filename="testing" my-video-file.mkv

does not produce testing.edl and testing.txt, it produces my-video-file.edl and my-video-file.txt

Or am I not understanding the purpose of this flag?

Workaround:

ln -s my-video-file.mkv testing.mkv
comskip -ini="myfile.ini" testing.mkv
[ -h testing.mkv ] && rm testing.mkv

[tmm1]

I think you need to use --output <dir> --output-filename <basename>. So in your case maybe adding --output . is enough.

[mackworth]

Looking at the code to understand this, I can confirm that if neither --output or an outFile is specified, then comskip ignores the --output-filename parameter entirely. To work around, you could specify either of these (as @tmm1 suggested).
BTW, if this wasn't intended, then at line 9032, comskip.c needs to build workbasename from the input directory and shortbasename.