id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,blockedby,blocking,reproduced,analyzed
2127,-- does not separate options and arguments before,phihag,,"To convert the file -dash.mp4 to -dash.mp3, ffmpeg 0.11 allowed

{{{
% ffmpeg -i -dash.mp3 -- -dash.mp4
}}}

In ffmpeg 1.1 (and git 4765f635387cef3efb01e52e59d4f3add126a0e2 ), this fails:

{{{
% ffmpeg -i -dash.mp3 -- -dash.mp4
ffmpeg version 1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan  8 2013 10:32:41 with gcc 4.7 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security ' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-z,relro' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --disable-decoder=libdirac --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-avfilter --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-decoder=amrnb --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libaacplus --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vda --enable-libbluray --enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-frei0r --enable-openssl --enable-libass --enable-libopus --enable-fontconfig --enable-libdc1394 --disable-altive  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Unrecognized option '-'.
Error splitting the argument list: Option not found
}}}

While it is possible to escape file names by prepending ./, doing is nontrivial in a script, since one has to consider absolute filenames as well. The -- convention is widely supported, not only by ffmpeg-0.11, but also GNU coreutils, bash, gcc, etc.",defect,closed,important,FFmpeg,git-master,fixed,regression,,,,0,0