[FFmpeg-cvslog] vsrc_movie: discourage its use with avconv.

Anton Khirnov git at videolan.org
Thu Aug 9 19:34:51 CEST 2012


ffmpeg | branch: master | Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> | Sun Aug  5 10:24:36 2012 +0200| [7ca14c731ed1fca7072c335095c2d96a6cb80fc0] | committer: Anton Khirnov

vsrc_movie: discourage its use with avconv.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=7ca14c731ed1fca7072c335095c2d96a6cb80fc0
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 doc/filters.texi |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/filters.texi b/doc/filters.texi
index 58a6903..e77256e 100644
--- a/doc/filters.texi
+++ b/doc/filters.texi
@@ -2178,6 +2178,11 @@ to the pad with identifier "in".
 
 Read a video stream from a movie container.
 
+Note that this source is a hack that bypasses the standard input path. It can be
+useful in applications that do not support arbitrary filter graphs, but its use
+is discouraged in those that do. Specifically in @command{avconv} this filter
+should never be used, the @option{-filter_complex} option fully replaces it.
+
 It accepts the syntax: @var{movie_name}[:@var{options}] where
 @var{movie_name} is the name of the resource to read (not necessarily
 a file but also a device or a stream accessed through some protocol),



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