[FFmpeg-user] MPEG2 Profile Options Integer order wrong

[Limin Wang]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:31:47AM +1000, Bill Crockett wrote:
> https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#mpeg2
> 
> Who maintains the documentation on the above and how can I contact to ask if it is wrong or correct?
> 
> 16.15 mpeg2
> 
> MPEG-2 video encoder.
> 
> 16.15.1 Options
> 
> profile integer
> 
>     Select the mpeg2 profile to encode:
> 
>     ‘422’
>     ‘main’
>     ‘ss’
> 
>         Spatially Scalable 
>     ‘snr’
> 
>         SNR Scalable 
>     ‘high’
>     ‘simple’
> 
> There are no numbers listed, but my guess is the order as is written and would be "main" = 1 and "high" = 4

Yes, it's const string, you can use -profile:v high or -profile:v main to get
expect result.

> 
> This is wrong and "high should be 1 and "main" should be 4.

If you guess the number by the order, I'll submit a patch to fix it to avoid such
confusion, it's not expected.

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Thanks,
Limin Wang