[FFmpeg-user] changes to ffmpeg to stop having to put an escape

[Julian Gardner]

On 2019-09-17 11:42, Nicolas George wrote:
> Julian Gardner (12019-09-16):
>> A few weeks ago I had a problem with some eval code and it was pointed 
>> out
>> that i need to escape the ','.
>> 
>> So here is a small patch that needs passing on to the devel guys to 
>> have a
>> look at.
>> 
>> All this does is to ignore the fixed tokens when inside parenthesis, 
>> so this
>> works now
> 
> This one works, and every other case involving parentheses becomes more
> complex. Therefore it is not a good idea. It is possible to get rid of
> the escaping, but it requires the parser to be aware of context. Small
> fixes like that only make thing harder in the long run.
> 
> Regards,

Can you show me a case where this will cause a failure as all my filters 
work as they should.

Bear in mind this only fixes the cases where escaping is required inside 
parenthesis.

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Joolz