[FFmpeg-user] -profile is ambiguous

[Rob Hallam]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 23:04, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/08/2025 16.30, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> > Its not. Provide the command line that causes this and the full ffmpeg
> > output, including the header showing the header and the eventual error
>
> Well, what do ya know. I am using a '-profile' option. However, the
> documentation: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#mpeg2, shows it as
> 'profile', not 'profile:v'.

-profile can be an option to audio streams too, eg [1]

the :v or :a specifiers, optionally with a numeric identifier [2] let
you explicitly say to which the option applies, without ambiguity.

A few examples of each of -profile:v and -profile:a are given in that document.

Cheers,
Rob

[1]: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Options-12
[2]: eg -profile:v:0 main -profile:v:1 baseline as in example 21.29.2
- https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#toc-Example