[FFmpeg-user] man ffmpeg absent

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 22:11:55 +0300, ILJA SHEBALIN wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I just downloaded ffmpeg set of tools (I'm on Lion). "ffmpeg --help" command printed out a guide in which I read that in order to get detailed description of each option I have to run "man ffmpeg" however doing that returns "No manual entry for ffmpeg". Therefore my question would be how do I install manuals for ffmpeg or --help, -h with all the switches is a substitute or that?

After building ffmpeg, the man pages are in $builddir/doc/.
After "make install", the man pages are in
$installprefix/share/man/man1/.

If you installed them somewhere else, you can point the "man" command
(well, at least Linux's version, not sure about "Lion") to the file:

man /my/installprefixshare/man/man1/ffmpeg.1

Moritz