[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/protocols: Document file protocol options

Andrey Utkin git at videolan.org
Thu Aug 1 04:28:17 CEST 2013


ffmpeg | branch: master | Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com> | Sun Jul 14 13:43:25 2013 +0300| [11ace706071f07a5c4ea28e11c2d4d19eef9317e] | committer: Michael Niedermayer

doc/protocols: Document file protocol options

Reviewed-by: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=11ace706071f07a5c4ea28e11c2d4d19eef9317e
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 doc/protocols.texi |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
index bae05d5..c91a07b 100644
--- a/doc/protocols.texi
+++ b/doc/protocols.texi
@@ -129,6 +129,20 @@ The ff* tools default to the file protocol, that is a resource
 specified with the name "FILE.mpeg" is interpreted as the URL
 "file:FILE.mpeg".
 
+This protocol accepts the following options:
+
+ at table @option
+ at item truncate
+Truncate existing files on write, if set to 1. A value of 0 prevents
+truncating. Default value is 1.
+
+ at item blocksize
+Set I/O operation maximum block size, in bytes. Default value is
+ at code{INT_MAX}, which results in not limiting the requested block size.
+Setting this value reasonably low improves user termination request reaction
+time, which is valuable for files on slow medium.
+ at end table
+
 @section ftp
 
 FTP (File Transfer Protocol).



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