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authorTimothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>2015-03-22 20:47:17 -0700
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2015-04-11 01:14:51 +0200
commit3d6069d01c8bb292286c4ada36a4f6155e8c8c53 (patch)
tree5a3161f66208af1635afc94bd9217fc82af90ec5 /doc/ffmpeg.texi
parent5faca08cafc17247ad392620e3b26ab4a70dc4ce (diff)
Use @verbatim instead of @example for ASCII arts
Partially fixes #3869. Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index 02952ac141..d9959959c2 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The format option may be needed for raw input files.
The transcoding process in @command{ffmpeg} for each output can be described by
the following diagram:
-@example
+@verbatim
_______ ______________
| | | |
| input | demuxer | encoded data | decoder
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ the following diagram:
|________| |______________|
-@end example
+@end verbatim
@command{ffmpeg} calls the libavformat library (containing demuxers) to read
input files and get packets containing encoded data from them. When there are
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Simple filtergraphs are those that have exactly one input and output, both of
the same type. In the above diagram they can be represented by simply inserting
an additional step between decoding and encoding:
-@example
+@verbatim
_________ ______________
| | | |
| decoded | | encoded data |
@@ -136,19 +136,19 @@ an additional step between decoding and encoding:
| frames |
|__________|
-@end example
+@end verbatim
Simple filtergraphs are configured with the per-stream @option{-filter} option
(with @option{-vf} and @option{-af} aliases for video and audio respectively).
A simple filtergraph for video can look for example like this:
-@example
+@verbatim
_______ _____________ _______ ________
| | | | | | | |
| input | ---> | deinterlace | ---> | scale | ---> | output |
|_______| |_____________| |_______| |________|
-@end example
+@end verbatim
Note that some filters change frame properties but not frame contents. E.g. the
@code{fps} filter in the example above changes number of frames, but does not
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ processing chain applied to one stream. This is the case, for example, when the
more than one input and/or output, or when output stream type is different from
input. They can be represented with the following diagram:
-@example
+@verbatim
_________
| |
| input 0 |\ __________
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ input. They can be represented with the following diagram:
| input 2 |/
|_________|
-@end example
+@end verbatim
Complex filtergraphs are configured with the @option{-filter_complex} option.
Note that this option is global, since a complex filtergraph, by its nature,
@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@ step for the specified stream, so it does only demuxing and muxing. It is useful
for changing the container format or modifying container-level metadata. The
diagram above will, in this case, simplify to this:
-@example
+@verbatim
_______ ______________ ________
| | | | | |
| input | demuxer | encoded data | muxer | output |
| file | ---------> | packets | -------> | file |
|_______| |______________| |________|
-@end example
+@end verbatim
Since there is no decoding or encoding, it is very fast and there is no quality
loss. However, it might not work in some cases because of many factors. Applying