[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/tee: provide aliases for the f and bsfs special options

[Paul B Mahol]

On 8/1/13, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On date Thursday 2013-08-01 13:55:12 +0200, Nicolas George encoded:
>> Le tridi 13 thermidor, an CCXXI, Paul B Mahol a ecrit :
>> > I'm against this, its just add extra overhead, and its ugly.
>>
>> I think I concur.
>
> Dropped, especially since this doesn't avoid the problem, which is
> private options masking global options with the same name. Right now
> if we add a global option named "f" or "bsfs" this will be always
> overriden by the private option with the same name.

IMHO 'proper' solution would be giving arguments to
encoders/decoder/muxers/demuxer/etc
in similar way as its done for filters.

Yes this is syntax/escaping nightmare but adding prefix to each private
option into codebase looks fishy.

In annother way, perhaps prefixes could be accepted from command line....