[FFmpeg-user] Improved documentation of -filter_complex_script
Gordon Charles
gacbuy at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 03:48:06 EEST 2023
The documentation for filter_complex_script reads:
-filter_complex_script filename (global)
This option is similar to -filter_complex, the only difference is that
its argument is the name of the file from which
a complex filtergraph description is to be read.
Unlike the filter_complex command line option which supports multi-line
input through the shell supported methods,
I could not find:
1) an example of a multi-line input
2) a statement that multi-line input is not supported
I was constructing a python script which would use a text file with
start and stop times to trim sections from an av
file while maintaining the time stamps. debugging the filter generation
in a multi-line format would have been
easier, so I was looking for a solution but could not find one. I
eventually settled on a multi-line I could issue
from the command line and a programmatic switch to change the content to
a single line for filter_complex_script.
I believe it would be useful to include the limitation if the script
must be a single line in the documentation or
provide documentation for multi-line if it is supported.
Regards,
Gordon
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