[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Update docs according to new "ab" parameter unit

Michel Bardiaux mbardiaux
Tue Mar 6 14:41:43 CET 2007


Benoit Fouet wrote:
> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> argh i cant even sleep a few hours without people flaming each other
>> I wouldnt say this has reached the level of 'flame war'. Barely
>> 'lively arguing'.
>>
> :)
> 
>>> without anyone even bothering to look at the code :(
>>> not to mention the thread where i asked if anyone would mind the -b
>>> change ...
>>>
>>> so again
>>> -foobar sets  foobar for all contextx
>>> -afoobar sets foobar for the audio context
>>> -vfoobar sets foobar for the video context
>>>
>>> that is nicely consistent but changes a few cases like -ab X -b Y in
>>> unexpected ways
>> And -r 25 would set the video fps *and* the audio sampling rate to 25?
>> That cant be good. What foo is a reasonable bar for both A and V?
>>
> no, rate works in a different way...

Sorry, I dont see what you mean here. If you mean rate is a exception to 
the generic behavior described above by Michael, then its main (IMHO 
only) merit, that of consistency, is already lost.

> 
>>> we could of course add -b with a function which av_log()exits()
>> Or keep -b as synonymous to -vb, -r as synonymous to -vr, etc...
>>
> i don't think it's worth it...

:-( How many scripts using ffmpeg do you have in production?

[snip]

>> A radical proposal: keep all existing options as compatibility
>> synonyms, and go for getopt_long (--vbitrate 200k) for a new set of
>> options.
>>
What, no reaction?


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