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+All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept in input
+a string representing a number, which may contain one of the
+International System number postfixes, for example 'K', 'M', 'G'.
+If 'i' is appended after the postfix, powers of 2 are used instead of
+powers of 10. The 'B' postfix multiplies the value for 8, and can be
+appended after another postfix or used alone. This allows using for
+example 'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as postfix.
+
+Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the
+corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing
+with "no" the option name, for example using "-nofoo" in the
+commandline will set to false the boolean option with name "foo".
+
+@section Generic options
+
+These options are shared amongst the av* tools.
+
+@table @option
+
+@item -L
+Show license.
+
+@item -h, -?, -help, --help
+Show help.
+
+@item -version
+Show version.
+
+@item -formats
+Show available formats.
+
+The fields preceding the format names have the following meanings:
+@table @samp
+@item D
+Decoding available
+@item E
+Encoding available
+@end table
+
+@item -codecs
+Show available codecs.
+
+The fields preceding the codec names have the following meanings:
+@table @samp
+@item D
+Decoding available
+@item E
+Encoding available
+@item V/A/S
+Video/audio/subtitle codec
+@item S
+Codec supports slices
+@item D
+Codec supports direct rendering
+@item T
+Codec can handle input truncated at random locations instead of only at frame boundaries
+@end table
+
+@item -bsfs
+Show available bitstream filters.
+
+@item -protocols
+Show available protocols.
+
+@item -filters
+Show available libavfilter filters.
+
+@item -pix_fmts
+Show available pixel formats.
+
+@item -sample_fmts
+Show available sample formats.
+
+@item -loglevel @var{loglevel}
+Set the logging level used by the library.
+@var{loglevel} is a number or a string containing one of the following values:
+@table @samp
+@item quiet
+@item panic
+@item fatal
+@item error
+@item warning
+@item info
+@item verbose
+@item debug
+@end table
+
+By default the program logs to stderr, if coloring is supported by the
+terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log coloring
+can be disabled setting the environment variable
+@env{FFMPEG_FORCE_NOCOLOR} or @env{NO_COLOR}, or can be forced setting
+the environment variable @env{FFMPEG_FORCE_COLOR}.
+The use of the environment variable @env{NO_COLOR} is deprecated and
+will be dropped in a following Libav version.
+
+@end table
+
+@section AVOptions
+
+These options are provided directly by the libavformat, libavdevice and
+libavcodec libraries. To see the list of available AVOptions, use the
+@option{-help} option. They are separated into two categories:
+@table @option
+@item generic
+These options can be set for any container, codec or device. Generic options are
+listed under AVFormatContext options for containers/devices and under
+AVCodecContext options for codecs.
+@item private
+These options are specific to the given container, device or codec. Private
+options are listed under their corresponding containers/devices/codecs.
+@end table
+
+For example to write an ID3v2.3 header instead of a default ID3v2.4 to
+an MP3 file, use the @option{id3v2_version} private option of the MP3
+muxer:
+@example
+ffmpeg -i input.flac -id3v2_version 3 out.mp3
+@end example
+
+You can precisely specify which stream(s) should the codec AVOption apply to by
+appending a stream specifier of the form
+@option{[:@var{stream_type}][:@var{stream_index}]} to the option name.
+@var{stream_type} is 'v' for video, 'a' for audio and 's' for subtitle streams.
+@var{stream_index} is a global stream index when @var{stream_type} isn't
+given, otherwise it counts streams of the given type only. As always, the index
+is zero-based. For example
+@example
+-foo -- applies to all applicable streams
+-foo:v -- applies to all video streams
+-foo:a:2 -- applies to the third audio stream
+-foo:0 -- applies to the first stream
+@end example
+
+Note -nooption syntax cannot be used for boolean AVOptions, use -option
+0/-option 1.
+
+Note2 old undocumented way of specifying per-stream AVOptions by prepending
+v/a/s to the options name is now obsolete and will be removed soon.