[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Complete argument information in ffmpeg.c:options

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:34:37PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Friday 2008-04-04 13:37:56 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > completes information regarding the description of the argument which
> > > is currently missing from the ffmpeg.c:options array.
> > > 
> > > This should make clearer to the user reading the ffmpeg -h output if
> > > an option takes an argument and which is its type (although the option
> > > itself may be quite essoteric and undocumented in the man e.g. async,
> > > vsync, vglobal...).
> > > 
> > > Best regards.
> > > -- 
> > > Stefano Sabatini
> > > Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)
> > 
> > > Index: ffmpeg.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- ffmpeg.c	(revision 12684)
> > > +++ ffmpeg.c	(working copy)
> > > @@ -3745,22 +3745,22 @@
> > >        "when dumping packets, also dump the payload" },
> > >      { "re", OPT_BOOL | OPT_EXPERT, {(void*)&rate_emu}, "read input at native frame rate", "" },
> > >      { "loop_input", OPT_BOOL | OPT_EXPERT, {(void*)&loop_input}, "loop (current only works with images)" },
> > > -    { "loop_output", HAS_ARG | OPT_INT | OPT_EXPERT, {(void*)&loop_output}, "number of times to loop output in formats that support looping (0 loops forever)", "" },
> > > +    { "loop_output", HAS_ARG | OPT_INT | OPT_EXPERT, {(void*)&loop_output}, "number of times to loop output in formats that support looping (0 loops forever)", "number" },
> > 
> > all additions of "number" are rejected
> 
> Hi, what do you suggest insted?

Split the patch.

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