[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffmpeg: add -progress option.

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Thursday 2012-07-12 15:21:11 +0200, Nicolas George encoded:
> Le quintidi 25 messidor, an CCXX, Stefano Sabatini a écrit :
> > unrelated?
> 
> I do not think so: this stanza was protected by an earlier test that I had
> to make laxer.
> 
> > Also could you show an instance of such an output? Just in case we
> > have some ideas for making it more beatiful.
> 
> It currently looks like that:
> 
> frame=562
> fps=561.6

> st_0_0_q=16.0
> st_1_0_q=0.0

I'd say: stream -> also consistent with ffprobe -of flat

> total_size=0
> out_time_ms=22320000
> out_time=00:00:22.320000

> dup=0
> drop=0

dup_frames, drop_frames?

> progress=continue

Looks good otherwise.

> > (Note: there is always the parsing problem, again a generic solution
> > may involve a writer API).
> 
> That is true, but note that one of the design point of this patch is to
> allow writing to packet-based protocols, such as UDP. And whatever the
> protocol, it needs progressive parsing. So naïve XML, for example, is out of
> the question.

Yes, but that's not a problem provided you can easily select the format
which best suits you.
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