[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/filters: update documentation

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 11:42:37 CEST 2012


On date Friday 2012-07-13 08:36:02 +0100, Tim Nicholson encoded:
> On 12/07/12 00:10, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Wednesday 2012-07-11 17:21:11 +0100, Tim Nicholson encoded:
> >> On 11/07/12 16:48, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > [...]
> >>>  Some filters take in input a list of parameters: they are specified
> >>> -after the filter name and an equal sign, and are separated each other
> >>> -by a semicolon.
> >>> +after the filter name and an equal sign.
> >>>
> >>
> >> what is the reasoning behind simply removing the "and are separated each
> >> other by a semicolon." section rather than correcting the 2 typos?
> > 
> > The documentation assumes that all filters support that syntax, which
> > was true only in a very early version of libavfilter (for example now
> > most filters support named options).
> > 
> 
> 
> Fair enough, although given the nature of the filtergraph syntax, and
> the use of punctuation characters with specific separator meaning I
> wasn't aware of any that don't use the colon separator between either
> numeric parameters or named options, in which case is it not worth
> mentioning?

I reverted that change and committed.
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