[FFmpeg-cvslog] avconv: remove -same_quant

Lou Logan lou at lrcd.com
Thu Oct 11 00:12:06 CEST 2012


On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:26:44 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Anton Khirnov <git <at> videolan.org> writes:
> 
> > avconv: remove -same_quant
> 
> (removes -sameq)
> I suspect this will break many examples, it is used 
> very often on -users.
> 
> Carl Eugen

Perhaps a necessary evil since this is the most misused option anyway
due to the legacy of the previous documentation on the option. Although
most users really only care about getting an output video without
wanting to understand the details, from the most basic users point of
view, dropping it might not be a good idea since using the option now
will result in an error instead of an output.

I'd prefer to see a message more informative than "Unrecognized option
'sameq'" and perhaps still allow encoding. Otherwise prepare for a good
number of support requests as to why -sameq no longer "works".


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