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authorGravatar wm4 <wm4@nowhere>2016-03-04 23:51:55 +0100
committerGravatar wm4 <wm4@nowhere>2016-03-04 23:51:55 +0100
commit9972847265f760ec6d7f813750325f11f7e0077f (patch)
tree3b845cbe198a5147c95488ca5a73592bd159bdd8 /DOCS
parent3f60548df472d01387784601526e378d8ffb4659 (diff)
demux: add null demuxer
It's useless, but can be used for fancy --lavfi-complex nonsense.
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-rw-r--r--DOCS/man/mpv.rst4
-rw-r--r--DOCS/man/options.rst2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst
index 6716c382f2..62a3a72f55 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst
@@ -708,7 +708,9 @@ PROTOCOLS
Stitch together parts of multiple files and play them.
``null://``
- Simulate an empty file.
+ Simulate an empty file. If opened for writing, it will discard all data.
+ The ``null`` demuxer will specifically pass autoprobing if this protocol
+ is used (while it's not automatically invoked for empty files).
``memory://data``
Use the ``data`` part as source data.
diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index ec71dd762b..eb1b1a60c0 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -3603,6 +3603,8 @@ Miscellaneous
- ``--lavfi-complex='[aid1] asplit [t1] [ao] ; [t1] showvolume [t2] ; [vid1] [t2] overlay [vo]'``
Play audio track 1, and overlay the measured volume for each speaker
over video track 1.
+ - ``null:// --lavfi-complex='life [vo]'``
+ Conways' Life Game.
See the FFmpeg libavfilter documentation for details on the filter.