[FFmpeg-devel] on the hard state of ffmpeg command line options

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> That's the reason I initially proposed the 
> (rather kludgey) -i "input -r 24" type input.

Are input files then forbidden to contain a space, a hyphen, 
hyphen and "r" or is some complicated rule that defines 
that a space followed by a hyphen, a space and a valid option 
is not an input file? What about new (later) options? Will 
they change the rule or will we reserve some option 
namespace?
And what should I do with the file "input -r 24" I just 
created?

Sorry, I am just trying to explain that there is no simple 
solution for the problem you describe (if you believe it 
exists), while there are some very good reasons not to 
touch the interface if it is not absolutely necessary.

Carl Eugen