Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#5338 open enhancement

Implement -h, -h long, -h full in ffplay to match ffmpeg cli

Reported by: veganaiZe Owned by:
Priority: wish Component: ffplay
Version: git-master Keywords: help
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: yes
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

Summary of the bug:
(ffmpeg-20160310-git-66edd86-win64-static)
When trying to view the help for "ffplay" binary with the "-h" option, over 300K of text is dumped to the console window. How am I supposed to find anything -- especially when Windows doesn't provide 'grep' and I'm not doing powershell(period).

How to reproduce:

% ffplay -h

Please partition this (un)helpful output. Thank you.

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are_you_kidding_me.txt​ (326.2 KB ) - added by veganaiZe 9 years ago.
Output of: ffplay -h

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Change History (4)

by veganaiZe, 9 years ago

Attachment: are_you_kidding_me.txt​ added

Output of: ffplay -h

comment:1 by compn, 9 years ago

unrelated to this bug, you may want to install grep on windows. same process as installing ffmpeg on windows.

C:\>grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2

comment:2 by Clément Bœsch, 9 years ago

Reproduced by developer: set
Status: new → open
Summary: ffplay -h help option broken → Implement -h, -h long, -h full in ffplay to match ffmpeg cli
Type: defect → enhancement

comment:3 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 9 years ago

Priority: normal → wish
Version: unspecified → git-master
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