[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/utils: document the "ms" and "us" suffixes for durations

Marton Balint cus at passwd.hu
Sun Mar 18 21:06:10 EET 2018



On Sat, 10 Mar 2018, Moritz Barsnick wrote:

> These suffixes were recently introduced in 61c972384d311508d07f9360d196909e27195655
> and completed in 8218249f1f04de65904f58519bde21948e5a0783.
>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net>
> ---
>
> I chose not to document the suffixes in the section describing the
> HH:MM:SS.mmm syntax, even though they work there (with expected, but
> quite difficult to explain effects).
>
> doc/utils.texi | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/utils.texi b/doc/utils.texi
> index d55dd315c3..a094ee151c 100644
> --- a/doc/utils.texi
> +++ b/doc/utils.texi
> @@ -110,11 +110,12 @@ maximum of 2 digits. The @var{m} at the end expresses decimal value for
> @emph{or}
> 
> @example
> -[-]@var{S}+[. at var{m}...]
> +[-]@var{S}+[. at var{m}...][ms|us]
> @end example
> 
> @var{S} expresses the number of seconds, with the optional decimal part
> - at var{m}.
> + at var{m}. The optional literal suffixes @samp{ms} or @samp{us} indicate to
> +interpret the value as milliseconds or microseconds, respectively.

I think you missed the normal "s" suffix (as in seconds) which is also 
supported from now on.

Regards,
Marton


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