[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffplay: fix and extend option -codec option

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Thursday 2012-12-13 11:56:11 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> On date Sunday 2012-12-09 20:03:03 +0100, Marton Balint encoded:
[...]
> Sorry, after more thinking I'm not really satisfied with the
> patch. Indeed being able to set the codec for a generic stream is not
> consistent with the general framework, which right now only allows to
> set options for video/audio/subtitle stream.
> 
> I suggest the following solutions:
> 
> 1. create the acodec/vcodec/scodec options, as an alias to
>    codec:{a,v,s}, while keeping support to the old syntax
> 
> This is consistent with the general options, setting codec:v/a/s gives
> the wrong impression that ffplay supports the more generic ffmpeg
> syntax, which is not true, and creating a partial mapping is
> confusing.
> 
> 2. allow to specify stream options through the syntax:
>    -codec:SPECIFIER=OPTIONS
> 
> This would allow to overcome the limitation at point 1, but would be
> inconsistent with the ffmpeg syntax.
> 
> I'll implement 1, while it would be useful to implement 2 at some
> point, in order to support generic stream option setting (the change
> could be propagate to the other tools and factorized).

Updated.
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