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authorDaniel Verkamp <daniel@drv.nu>2009-02-23 01:47:18 +0000
committerDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2009-02-23 01:47:18 +0000
commitf67f485b365b744d2ae669fd51aff6b7aa7472a6 (patch)
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parentb1f58ed4f937b993dba05811104dada6a9df92a3 (diff)
Document 'ffmpeg -formats', patch by Daniel Verkamp, daniel drv nu.
Originally committed as revision 17536 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -229,7 +229,23 @@ Show help.
Show version.
@item -formats
-Show available formats, codecs, protocols, ...
+Show available formats, codecs, bitstream filters, protocols, and frame size and frame rate abbreviations.
+
+The fields preceding the format and 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 -f @var{fmt}
Force format.