[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/ffmpeg: -timelimit is in user time

[Lou Logan]

Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
---
Some users were expecting real/wall-clock time.

 doc/ffmpeg.texi      | 2 +-
 fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index 1da18d9d0b..9cccc2337d 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ it will usually display as 0 if not supported.
 Show benchmarking information during the encode.
 Shows real, system and user time used in various steps (audio/video encode/decode).
 @item -timelimit @var{duration} (@emph{global})
-Exit after ffmpeg has been running for @var{duration} seconds.
+Exit after ffmpeg has been running for @var{duration} seconds in CPU user time.
 @item -dump (@emph{global})
 Dump each input packet to stderr.
 @item -hex (@emph{global})
diff --git a/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c b/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c
index b2aa63e7ee..661441c161 100644
--- a/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c
+++ b/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c
@@ -3443,7 +3443,7 @@ const OptionDef options[] = {
     { "stdin",          OPT_BOOL | OPT_EXPERT,                       { &stdin_interaction },
       "enable or disable interaction on standard input" },
     { "timelimit",      HAS_ARG | OPT_EXPERT,                        { .func_arg = opt_timelimit },
-        "set max runtime in seconds", "limit" },
+        "set max runtime in seconds in CPU user time", "limit" },
     { "dump",           OPT_BOOL | OPT_EXPERT,                       { &do_pkt_dump },
         "dump each input packet" },
     { "hex",            OPT_BOOL | OPT_EXPERT,                       { &do_hex_dump },
-- 
2.23.0