Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#613 closed defect (fixed)

Missing documentation for -b flag

Reported by: foo Owned by: stefano
Priority: normal Component: documentation
Version: git-master Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

The ffmpeg documentation at http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html contains numerous examples of setting the bitrate using '-b', but no actual documentation for it.

It still appears to work in recent builds, so probably the documentation for it should be brought back. Otherwise, it should be dropped from the examples.

Change History (2)

in reply to:  description comment:1 by llogan, 12 years ago

Replying to foo:

The ffmpeg documentation at http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html contains numerous examples of setting the bitrate using '-b', but no actual documentation for it.

Where do you see no documentation for -b? Or do you mean man ffmpeg?

$ ffmpeg -h | grep -w "\-b"
-b bitrate          video bitrate (please use -b:v)

I didn't see any mention of -ab however.

It still appears to work in recent builds, so probably the documentation for it should be brought back. Otherwise, it should be dropped from the examples.

The doc source has been updated to change -b to -b:v and -b:a:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=a14708d4acd5ef53a635126479c0522944dd1d03

comment:2 by llogan, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
Version: unspecifiedgit-master

Closing as fixed. Please comment if you believe the update to ffmpeg.html is insufficient.

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