[FFmpeg-user] Library Specific Options

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2011-07-03 07:57:08 -0400, Kyle encoded:
> To my knowledge FFmpeg does not support passing specific options to
> the library being used.
> 
> I believe this would be a handy feature, and not impossibly
> difficult to implement.
> 
> An example of this would be with the package LAME, FFmpeg obviously
> supports encoding with the LAME library package, but to my knowledge
> does not support specific features that LAME supplies.
> 
> This is a example of how the features I'm describing could possibly work:
> ffmpeg -i "infile.mpg" -vcodec copy -acodec libmp3lame
> -alib_options="--noreplaygain" -ab 192k "outfile.mp4"

Since a few months FFmpeg supports private options, that is options
which are specific of the codec/format selected. For example now
libx264 has an -x264opts which allows to specify options processed
directly by libx264.
 
> Then FFmpeg would simply pass all "-alib_options" to the audio codec
> library, allowing for all features that the library being used has
> to offer.
> 
> This is just a possible "feature request" and I apologize if this
> feature already exists.
> 
> If this feature does not exists I could really see some useful
> functions for it if it was to be implemented.

Which options do you want to see implemented?
-- 
ffmpeg-user random tip #10
One minute of audio noise with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -ar 48000 -t 60 -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le -i /dev/urandom  \
    -ab 64K -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -y noise.mp2