@@ -289,8 +289,8 @@ see @ref{time duration syntax,,the Time duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1)
-to and -t are mutually exclusive and -t has priority.
-@item -to @var{position} (@emph{output})
-Stop writing the output at @var{position}.
+@item -to @var{position} (@emph{input/output})
+Stop writing the output or reading the input at @var{position}.
@var{position} must be a time duration specification,
see @ref{time duration syntax,,the Time duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual,ffmpeg-utils}.
@@ -976,6 +976,21 @@ static int open_input_file(OptionsContext *o, const char *filename)
char * data_codec_name = NULL;
int scan_all_pmts_set = 0;
+ if (o->stop_time != INT64_MAX && o->recording_time != INT64_MAX) {
+ o->stop_time = INT64_MAX;
+ av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_WARNING, "-t and -to cannot be used together; using -t.\n");
+ }
+
+ if (o->stop_time != INT64_MAX && o->recording_time == INT64_MAX) {
+ int64_t start_time = o->start_time == AV_NOPTS_VALUE ? 0 : o->start_time;
+ if (o->stop_time <= start_time) {
+ av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR, "-to value smaller than -ss; aborting.\n");
+ exit_program(1);
+ } else {
+ o->recording_time = o->stop_time - start_time;
+ }
+ }
+
if (o->format) {
if (!(file_iformat = av_find_input_format(o->format))) {
av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_FATAL, "Unknown input format: '%s'\n", o->format);
@@ -3407,7 +3422,7 @@ const OptionDef options[] = {
OPT_INPUT | OPT_OUTPUT, { .off = OFFSET(recording_time) },
"record or transcode \"duration\" seconds of audio/video",
"duration" },
- { "to", HAS_ARG | OPT_TIME | OPT_OFFSET | OPT_OUTPUT, { .off = OFFSET(stop_time) },
+ { "to", HAS_ARG | OPT_TIME | OPT_OFFSET | OPT_INPUT | OPT_OUTPUT, { .off = OFFSET(stop_time) },
"record or transcode stop time", "time_stop" },
{ "fs", HAS_ARG | OPT_INT64 | OPT_OFFSET | OPT_OUTPUT, { .off = OFFSET(limit_filesize) },
"set the limit file size in bytes", "limit_size" },