[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fate: use the lavfi -graph_file option to workaround path issues.

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:41:34PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:42:10AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Le quartidi 4 brumaire, an CCXXI, jamal a écrit :
> > > ffprobe -show_frames -of compact=nk=1:p=0 -bitexact -f lavfi "movie=/ffmpeg/samples/svq3/Vertical400kbit.sorenson3.mov,select=gt(scene\,.4)"
> > > 
> > > [movie @ 02CA3500] Missing key or no key/value separator found after key '/MinGW/msys/1.0/ffmpeg/samples/svq3/Vertical400kbit.sorenson3.mov'
> > 
> > Obviously, the path was converted before being presented to ffmpeg: the
> > argument string has become "movie=c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/ffmpeg/...", and movie
> > interprets the : as an option separator.
> > 
> > This is completely brain-dead, there is no way to save this design and make
> > it work.
> 
> "movie" could consider a single letter + ':' to be part of the filename
> this would avoid the escaping that the : otherwise would need
> 

If you have a 1 letter input file (which might be stupid but is possible),
followed by options, you're doomed.

-- 
Clément B.
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