[FFmpeg-cvslog] r19285 - trunk/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2009-06-27 17:02:07 +0100, Robert Swain wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:26:35 +0200 (CEST), stefano
> <subversion at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> > Author: stefano
> > Date: Sat Jun 27 15:26:35 2009
> > New Revision: 19285
> > 
> > Log:
> > Update ffmpeg documentation regarding metadata setting. -title,
> > -author, -copyright, -track, -album, and -year options have been
> > dropped in favor of -metadata.
> > 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
> > 
> > Modified: trunk/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- trunk/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi	Sat Jun 27 12:26:27 2009
> > (r19284) +++ trunk/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi	Sat Jun 27 15:26:35
> > 2009	(r19285) @@ -282,29 +282,15 @@ The offset is added to the
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > + at item -metadata @var{key}=@var{value}
> > +Set a metadata key/par value.
> 
> 'key/par value'? Did you mean 'key/value pair'?

Yes, I'm quite amazed I missed that.
 
> > + at example
> > +ffmpeg -i in.avi -metadata title="my title"
> > + at end example
> 
> As a number of options were removed, maybe it would be useful to have a
> list, or an option to display a list of possible keys.

Uh, maybe something like
ffmpeg -show_metadata help -i in.avi?

But that looks like something could be more suited for a different
tool (ffprobe? if I'll ever find the time to work on its integration),
or maybe an fftag tool.

Regards.