[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Implement -vfilters_file option in ffplay

Stefano Sabatini stefano.sabatini-lala
Thu Apr 1 01:10:06 CEST 2010


On date Wednesday 2010-03-31 23:35:20 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:09:55PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Tuesday 2010-03-30 02:38:07 +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd encoded:
> > > Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On date Sunday 2010-03-28 23:23:26 -0500, Bobby Bingham encoded:
> > > >> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:12:25 +0200
> > > >> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> > > >> 
> > > >> > Hi, this is useful if you have complex filterchain to use, also should
> > > >> > help scripting.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > If that's OK I'll implement the corresponding option in
> > > >> > ffmpeg.c/libavfilter-gsoc.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Regards.
> > > >> 
> > > >> How is this different from ffplay -vfilters "`cat vfilters_file`" ?
> > > >
> > > > Not all the shells support that feature,
> > > 
> > > All Unix shells do, even the crappy ones.
> > 
> > And now I'm a little pissed-off as my lovely shell is not supporting
> > this feature:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.fish.user/2338
> > 
> > so I'd push for having this patch integrated here rather than wait for
> > this feature to be implemented in the shell or having to resort to
> > bash...
> 
> something along the lines of
> echo ffplay -vfilters >tmp
> cat vfilters_file >>tmp
> ./tmp
> 
> should work

Well it's actually a little more complicated than this, anyway the
point was to avoid the need to create a script for something which can
be done by adding an option, also I'm quite sure there are other
shells out there which suffer the same limitation (command.com just to
say one... and no not having this feature is not a reason for changing
a shell).

Regards.
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