On 8/5/2017 2:15 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 thermidor, an CCXXV, James Almer a écrit : >> Users may not know that it's a shortcut to begin with. > > It is exactly the reason I am proposing to document it here.
Indeed, but that's something that should have been done once AVOptions gained the shorthand feature with the CLI, not several years down the line and hundreds of scripts and tutorials potentially considering it a fixed syntax. At this point, breaking current shorthand behavior is pretty disruptive, at least without some warnings and removal grace period. My suggestion would be to keep dummy options in a similar fashion we keep deprecated functions, so the shorthand notation does not start trying to fill values of unexpected new or moved options. Making them raise a warning about how it will stop working in the near future (No need for two years like with API, one or two releases should be enough) and maybe mention the new option that will be filled by the shorthand notation. Is there for that matter a way to achieve this for the CLI only and not keeping the dummy options for library users? _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
