[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/filters: update documentation

Tim Nicholson nichot20 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 16 09:42:28 CEST 2012


On 14/07/12 10:42, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Friday 2012-07-13 08:36:02 +0100, Tim Nicholson encoded:
>> On 12/07/12 00:10, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>>> On date Wednesday 2012-07-11 17:21:11 +0100, Tim Nicholson encoded:
>>>> On 11/07/12 16:48, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>  Some filters take in input a list of parameters: they are specified
>>>>> -after the filter name and an equal sign, and are separated each other
>>>>> -by a semicolon.
>>>>> +after the filter name and an equal sign.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> what is the reasoning behind simply removing the "and are separated each
>>>> other by a semicolon." section rather than correcting the 2 typos?
>>>
>>> The documentation assumes that all filters support that syntax, which
>>> was true only in a very early version of libavfilter (for example now
>>> most filters support named options).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Fair enough, although given the nature of the filtergraph syntax, and
>> the use of punctuation characters with specific separator meaning I
>> wasn't aware of any that don't use the colon separator between either
>> numeric parameters or named options, in which case is it not worth
>> mentioning?
> 
> I reverted that change and committed.
> 

Fine. I have submitted a separate patch to fix those typos, they were
beginning to annoy me...

-- 
Tim




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