> On Sep 4, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Le nonidi 19 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Stefano Sabatini a écrit : >> This is meant to be used for generating output suitable for the >> ffprobe_default demuxer. >> --- >> ffprobe.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- >> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > I find the naming a bit clumsy. It says what it says, but what it the next > step? -show_format_after_frames_but_before_streams? > > I would like to suggest another avenue, a little more work but not by much: > deprecate all the -show_<section> options, and replace them by a single > -show option that takes the sections name in order: > > ffprobe -show packets,streams,format > > would be equivalent to the current "ffprobe -show_frames -show_streams > -show_format", but: > > ffprobe -show format,streams,packets > > would yield the same result as with -show_headers_first. > > The syntax could later be updated for various extra features: > > ffprobe -show format,streams,packets,rewind,packets+frames=silent=1,streams > > I do not know how it interacts with the -show_entries feature, but I must > say I never understood how the -show_entries feature works.
I’m not clear as to the reasoning for this, as the ordering of the elements doesn’t effect any of the meaing of the xml. However I wanted to note that such reordering would create invalid ffprobe xml. ffprobe.xsd defines the elements in a `sequence`, so if the order of elements is really arbitrary it should be changed to a `choice`. Dave Rice _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
