[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc: update loglevel option documentation

Tobias Rapp git at videolan.org
Thu Apr 12 09:45:58 EEST 2018


ffmpeg | branch: master | Tobias Rapp <t.rapp at noa-archive.com> | Tue Apr  3 09:24:21 2018 +0200| [bc62d20dc415caf949b6452b2707b9eba78cb098] | committer: Tobias Rapp

doc: update loglevel option documentation

Updates documentation after the changes to loglevel flag prefix parsing
in 4b736bc921ed96ad6d312ce0cbe0de29b9e3fe81.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Rapp <t.rapp at noa-archive.com>

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=bc62d20dc415caf949b6452b2707b9eba78cb098
---

 doc/fftools-common-opts.texi | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/fftools-common-opts.texi b/doc/fftools-common-opts.texi
index 185ec218d5..7787e11cda 100644
--- a/doc/fftools-common-opts.texi
+++ b/doc/fftools-common-opts.texi
@@ -168,14 +168,24 @@ The returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete.
 ffmpeg -sinks pulse,server=192.168.0.4
 @end example
 
- at item -loglevel [repeat+]@var{loglevel} | -v [repeat+]@var{loglevel}
-Set the logging level used by the library.
-Adding "repeat+" indicates that repeated log output should not be compressed
-to the first line and the "Last message repeated n times" line will be
-omitted. "repeat" can also be used alone.
-If "repeat" is used alone, and with no prior loglevel set, the default
-loglevel will be used. If multiple loglevel parameters are given, using
-'repeat' will not change the loglevel.
+ at item -loglevel [@var{flags}+]@var{loglevel} | -v [@var{flags}+]@var{loglevel}
+Set logging level and flags used by the library.
+
+The optional @var{flags} prefix can consist of the following values:
+ at table @samp
+ at item repeat
+Indicates that repeated log output should not be compressed to the first line
+and the "Last message repeated n times" line will be omitted.
+ at item level
+Indicates that log output should add a @code{[level]} prefix to each message
+line. This can be used as an alternative to log coloring, e.g. when dumping the
+log to file.
+ at end table
+Flags can also be used alone by adding a '+'/'-' prefix to set/reset a single
+flag without affecting other @var{flags} or changing @var{loglevel}. When
+setting both @var{flags} and @var{loglevel}, a '+' separator is expected
+between the last @var{flags} value and before @var{loglevel}.
+
 @var{loglevel} is a string or a number containing one of the following values:
 @table @samp
 @item quiet, -8
@@ -201,6 +211,17 @@ Show everything, including debugging information.
 @item trace, 56
 @end table
 
+For example to enable repeated log output, add the @code{level} prefix, and set
+ at var{loglevel} to @code{verbose}:
+ at example
+ffmpeg -loglevel repeat+level+verbose -i input output
+ at end example
+Another example that enables repeated log output without affecting current
+state of @code{level} prefix flag or @var{loglevel}:
+ at example
+ffmpeg [...] -loglevel +repeat
+ at end example
+
 By default the program logs to stderr. If coloring is supported by the
 terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log coloring
 can be disabled setting the environment variable



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