Control: tags -1 upstream wontfix Control: forwarded -1 https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7211
Hi, On 14/11/2018 03:31, Witold Baryluk wrote: > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 7:4.0.3-1 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/bin/ffprobe > > Hi. > > > user@debian:~$ ffprobe output_x264_medium_crf22.mp4 >stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt > user@debian:~$ cat stdout.txt > user@debian:~$ cat stderr.txt > ffprobe version 4.0.3-1 Copyright (c) 2007-2018 the FFmpeg developers > built with gcc 8 (Debian 8.2.0-9) > configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=1 --toolchain=hardened > --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu [...] > I find it very distracting to have half of the screen consumed by version > of ffmpeg, build options and libraries options. > > There is no need for any (ANY, not even the first line) of these by default, > because there are: > > ffprobe -version > > that shows the same information (on stdout). > > And more comprehensive / machine parsable commands: > > ffprobe -show_program_version > ffprobe -show_library_versions > ffprobe -show_versions (both two above combined) > > > Having option that restores some build info to be printed and continues > execution could be useful for some tho. But it should not be enabled by > default, and should output all these build info details to stdout. This issue has been reported to upstream before (see the above link) and they've declined to fix it - mainly citing support issues. Given that upstream ffmpeg (for better or worse) are going to be receiving support requests from people who have the Debian package installed, I'd rather not deviate from upstream on this. James
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