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authorAnton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>2012-08-05 10:24:36 +0200
committerAnton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>2012-08-08 21:56:44 +0200
commit7ca14c731ed1fca7072c335095c2d96a6cb80fc0 (patch)
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parentab2960970171ce3c988405f99a517b9a2fd6496e (diff)
vsrc_movie: discourage its use with avconv.
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@@ -2178,6 +2178,11 @@ to the pad with identifier "in".
Read a video stream from a movie container.
+Note that this source is a hack that bypasses the standard input path. It can be
+useful in applications that do not support arbitrary filter graphs, but its use
+is discouraged in those that do. Specifically in @command{avconv} this filter
+should never be used, the @option{-filter_complex} option fully replaces it.
+
It accepts the syntax: @var{movie_name}[:@var{options}] where
@var{movie_name} is the name of the resource to read (not necessarily
a file but also a device or a stream accessed through some protocol),