[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] doc/ffmpeg: rewrite the introductory paragraph

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Sat Apr 1 21:55:17 EEST 2023


This is not the place to boast about high-quality polyphase filters -
the most important feature of the program is its universality.
---
 doc/ffmpeg.texi | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index 68124aaf05..c7dffdb109 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ ffmpeg [@var{global_options}] @{[@var{input_file_options}] -i @file{input_url}@}
 @chapter Description
 @c man begin DESCRIPTION
 
- at command{ffmpeg} is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from
-a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample
-rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.
+ at command{ffmpeg} is a universal media converter based on the libav* libraries.
+It can read a wide variety of inputs - including live grabbing/recording devices
+- filter, and transcode them into a plethora of output formats.
 
 @command{ffmpeg} reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be regular
 files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), specified by the
-- 
2.39.1



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