[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/5] libavfilter/ebur128: add mabsolute parameter

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/7/18, Daniel Molkentin <daniel at molkentin.de> wrote:
>
> On 07.10.2018 18:02, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
>> This allows switching between absolute (LUFS) and relativ (LU) display
>> in the status line.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Molkentin <daniel at molkentin.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Conrad Zelck <c.zelck at imail.de>
>> ---
>>  doc/filters.texi        |  4 ++++
>>  libavfilter/f_ebur128.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/filters.texi b/doc/filters.texi
>> index 601cbda17c..dc01c805b2 100644
>> --- a/doc/filters.texi
>> +++ b/doc/filters.texi
>> @@ -19371,6 +19371,10 @@ by EBU R128. However, material published online
>> may prefer a level of -16LUFS
>>  Set the value displayed by the gauge. Valid values are m (momentary) and
>> s (short-term).
>>  By default the momentary value will be used, but in certain scenarios it
>> may be more useful
>>  to observe the short term value instead (e.g. live mixing).
>> +
>> + at item mabsolute
>> +Sets whether to display the loudness in LUFS (1, the default) LU relative
>> to the target (0).
>> +This only affects the video output, not the summary or continous log
>> output.
>>  @end table
>>
> On a second thought, should this maybe be measurement=absolute|relative
> or measurement=LU|LUFS? Opinions? More descriptive that way...

Yeah, that one is more descriptive, you also can have aliases so can have
both absolute/relative/LU/LUFS