[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Update docs according to new "ab" parameter unit

Benoit Fouet benoit.fouet
Tue Mar 6 16:18:19 CET 2007


Hi,

Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Benoit Fouet wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Benoit Fouet wrote:
>>>       
>> [snip]
>>     
>>>> the only options i see for the moment that works like that are "ab" and
>>>> "vb" (and potentially "sb")
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> -adebug -vdebug -debug should work too
>>>
>>> and potentially things like -qscale, -bt, -flags bitexact, -strict
>>> -er -ec -coder -context -minrate -maxrate, -pred, -psnr, ...
>>>
>>> would work if a audio codec used them ...
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>   
>>>   
>>>       
>> true
>> (maybe needing a little rework of opt default as only avctx_opts[0] is
>> checked for debug and bitexactness at the moment...)
>>
>> well... why don't we just revert the patch ?
>> now that some people are involved, we could have some more reactions, no ?
>>
>>     
>
> maybe, I don't mind, except for the 200k default audio bitrate which is
> too much IMHO, and yes Im faulty for not having spoken in the thread,
> because I did not realize that this change involved changing it, when we
> changed "-b" behaviour, default bitrate did not change.
>
>   
i agree on the default bitrate which is not good (high or low, i
wouldn't say)

> Michael, can we state in ffmpeg policy that API changes should be deeply
> discussed, and something like "last call, speak now or stay quiet"
> should be sent before applying ?
>
>   
and maybe have a minimum time to wait before applying...
because you have no guarantee someone will answer soon enough :)

Ben





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