[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] examples/decoding_encoding: clarify operations in the usage message

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Thursday 2012-09-13 16:43:00 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:20:03AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > ---
> >  doc/examples/decoding_encoding.c |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/examples/decoding_encoding.c b/doc/examples/decoding_encoding.c
> > index d3d1211..c5c0b8f 100644
> > --- a/doc/examples/decoding_encoding.c
> > +++ b/doc/examples/decoding_encoding.c
> > @@ -608,6 +608,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> >      if (argc < 2) {
> >          printf("usage: %s output_type\n"
> >                 "API example program to decode/encode a media stream with libavcodec.\n"
> > +               "This program generates a synthetic stream and encodes it. The same\n"
> > +               "stream is then decoded and written to a raw data output\n."
> >                 "output_type must be choosen between 'h264', 'mp2', 'mpg'\n",
> >                 argv[0]);
> 
> makes no sense to me, "to raw data output" and
> "output_type must be choosen between 'h264', 'mp2', 'mpg'"
> dont fit together

Yes this is not perfectly clear, but we assume that whoever is reading
that is able to guess that output_type refer to the *encoded* files.

Test reworded, and patch updated.
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