[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc: chromaprint

Gyan Doshi git at videolan.org
Tue Dec 4 13:10:06 EET 2018


ffmpeg | branch: master | Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> | Tue Dec  4 16:52:38 2018 +0530| [8bd791969960d6258177ebf8b68391fd4b432fd1] | committer: Gyan Doshi

doc: chromaprint

Add entry in external library list and add details to muxer entry.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=8bd791969960d6258177ebf8b68391fd4b432fd1
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 doc/general.texi |  6 ++++++
 doc/muxers.texi  | 18 ++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi
index 5256e0653d..7b6efdbfdd 100644
--- a/doc/general.texi
+++ b/doc/general.texi
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ Go to @url{http://aomedia.org/} and follow the instructions for
 installing the library. Then pass @code{--enable-libaom} to configure to
 enable it.
 
+ at section Chromaprint
+
+FFmpeg can make use of the Chromaprint library for generating audio fingerprints.
+It is licensed under LGPL version 2.1. Pass @code{--enable-chromaprint} to configure to
+enable it. See @url{https://acoustid.org/chromaprint}.
+
 @section OpenJPEG
 
 FFmpeg can use the OpenJPEG libraries for encoding/decoding J2K videos.  Go to
diff --git a/doc/muxers.texi b/doc/muxers.texi
index f1cc6f5fee..5565fd5f45 100644
--- a/doc/muxers.texi
+++ b/doc/muxers.texi
@@ -94,21 +94,23 @@ compatibility with software that only supports a single audio stream in AVI
 @anchor{chromaprint}
 @section chromaprint
 
-Chromaprint fingerprinter
+Chromaprint fingerprinter.
 
-This muxer feeds audio data to the Chromaprint library, which generates
-a fingerprint for the provided audio data. It takes a single signed
-native-endian 16-bit raw audio stream.
+This muxer feeds audio data to the Chromaprint library,
+which generates a fingerprint for the provided audio data. See @url{https://acoustid.org/chromaprint}
+
+It takes a single signed native-endian 16-bit raw audio stream of at most 2 channels.
 
 @subsection Options
 
 @table @option
 @item silence_threshold
-Threshold for detecting silence, ranges from 0 to 32767. -1 for default
-(required for use with the AcoustID service).
+Threshold for detecting silence, ranges from -1 to 32767. -1 disables silence detection and
+is required for use with the AcoustID service. Default is -1.
 
 @item algorithm
-Algorithm index to fingerprint with.
+Version of algorithm to fingerprint with. Range is 0 to 4. Version 2 requires that silence
+detection be enabled. Default is 1.
 
 @item fp_format
 Format to output the fingerprint as. Accepts the following options:
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ Binary raw fingerprint
 Binary compressed fingerprint
 
 @item base64
-Base64 compressed fingerprint
+Base64 compressed fingerprint @emph{(default)}
 
 @end table
 



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