[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/ffmpeg: rewrite the introductory paragraph

Anton Khirnov git at videolan.org
Tue Apr 4 12:48:29 EEST 2023


ffmpeg | branch: master | Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> | Fri Mar 31 10:22:28 2023 +0200| [2244722f1f3c3a2d0ea02c07631e73bcb0bbba81] | committer: Anton Khirnov

doc/ffmpeg: rewrite the introductory paragraph

This is not the place to boast about high-quality polyphase filters -
the most important feature of the program is its universality.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=2244722f1f3c3a2d0ea02c07631e73bcb0bbba81
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 doc/ffmpeg.texi | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index 85ce4369bd..d433d60ce9 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ ffmpeg [@var{global_options}] @{[@var{input_file_options}] -i @file{input_url}@}
 @chapter Description
 @c man begin DESCRIPTION
 
- at command{ffmpeg} is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from
-a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample
-rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.
+ at command{ffmpeg} is a universal media converter. It can read a wide variety of
+inputs - including live grabbing/recording devices - filter, and transcode them
+into a plethora of output formats.
 
 @command{ffmpeg} reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be regular
 files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), specified by the



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