[FFmpeg-user] Hello, I want to ask about sending very long argument into ffmpeg command line.

Ted Park kumowoon1025 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 08:54:16 EET 2019


> Hello. My name is Minsung Kim, I want to ask about sending very long arguments into ffmpeg command line.
> 
> Since Linux kernel can't handle very long arguments, I am thinking steps below.
> 
> - Rename current "main" function from source code to "main2".
> - Make new "main" function, and generate long arguments in that function.
> - Pass that arguments into main2.
> 
> Is this a good way to solve it? If I have to change more part of code, where should I change it?

What are the “very long arguments”? If most of it’s a filter chain you can separate that into a file.


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