From 0fff6c039c7e52c41ec003b5ab47b5adb3daeb48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gyan Doshi Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:14:37 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc/ffmpeg: document max_error_rate --- doc/ffmpeg.texi | 5 +++++ fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi index 62015d7565..470ce961ce 100644 --- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi +++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi @@ -1739,6 +1739,11 @@ No packets were passed to the muxer, the output is empty. No packets were passed to the muxer in some of the output streams. @end table +@item -max_error_rate (@emph{global}) +Set fraction of decoding frame failures across all inputs which when crossed +ffmpeg will return exit code 69. Crossing this threshold does not terminate +processing. Range is a floating-point number between 0 to 1. Default is 2/3. + @item -xerror (@emph{global}) Stop and exit on error diff --git a/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c b/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c index c295514401..fd923fce04 100644 --- a/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c +++ b/fftools/ffmpeg_opt.c @@ -3586,7 +3586,7 @@ const OptionDef options[] = { { "debug_ts", OPT_BOOL | OPT_EXPERT, { &debug_ts }, "print timestamp debugging info" }, { "max_error_rate", HAS_ARG | OPT_FLOAT, { &max_error_rate }, - "ratio of errors (0.0: no errors, 1.0: 100% errors) above which ffmpeg returns an error instead of success.", "maximum error rate" }, + "ratio of decoding errors (0.0: no errors, 1.0: 100% errors) above which ffmpeg returns an error instead of success.", "maximum error rate" }, { "discard", OPT_STRING | HAS_ARG | OPT_SPEC | OPT_INPUT, { .off = OFFSET(discard) }, "discard", "" },