please use XXX ambiguous warning

[tsmgeek]

It seems that there are a few messages about -qscale/-profile/-b etc being ambiguous and use separate audio/video versions?
Should the library be updated to correct these issues?

[buggedcom]

Can you post the exact warnings here please, as well as your ffmpeg version number. As there are so many different version of ffmpeg floating out there it's quite hard to keep track of all the messages.

[tsmgeek]

I have checked the latest ffmpeg source on GitHub and they still have the deprecated message there.
I am on ffmpeg 2.1, I know that you say you have written to 1.2 but would it not be possible to check early on in the library what version of ffmpeg is being used then switch param as required.

[root@cron-server2 console]#  /tmp/ffmpeg '-i'  '/tmp/input.mov' '-vf' 'movie=/tmp/logo_clean.png [wm]; [in]scale=trunc((oh*a)/2)*2:480[scale]; [scale][wm] overlay=main_w-overlay_w-10:main_h-overlay_h-10 [out]' '-y' '-progress' '/tmp/phpvideotoolkit_progress_1Bsfzt' '-qscale' '4' '-f' 'mp4' '-strict' 'experimental' '-threads' '3' '-acodec' 'aac' '-ab' '128k' '-ar' '44100' '-vcodec' 'h264' '-s' '854x480' '-aspect' '16:9' '-b:v' '500k' '-preset' 'medium' '-tune' 'film' '/tmp/output.mp4'
ffmpeg version N-60161-g5554c6d Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan 25 2014 05:43:05 with gcc 4.6 (Debian 4.6.3-1)
  configuration: --prefix=/root/ffmpeg-static/64bit --extra-cflags='-I/root/ffmpeg-static/64bit/include -static' --extra-ldflags='-L/root/ffmpeg-static/64bit/lib -static' --extra-libs='-lxml2 -lexpat -lfreetype' --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffserver --disable-doc --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-postproc --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gray --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-version3 --enable-libvpx
  libavutil      52. 63.100 / 52. 63.100
  libavcodec     55. 49.100 / 55. 49.100
  libavformat    55. 26.100 / 55. 26.100
  libavdevice    55.  5.102 / 55.  5.102
  libavfilter     4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
  libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Guessed Channel Layout for  Input Stream #0.1 : stereo
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/tmp/input.mov':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt
    minor_version   : 537331968
    compatible_brands: qt  niko
    creation_time   : 2013-11-01 14:41:24
  Duration: 00:00:27.43, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 22890 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, smpte170m), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 21278 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-11-01 14:41:24
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16le (sowt / 0x74776F73), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-11-01 14:41:24
Please use -q:a or -q:v, -qscale is ambiguous
[swscaler @ 0x3fedc20] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] using SAR=1280/1281
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] profile High, level 3.1
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] 264 - core 129 r2230 1cffe9f - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2012 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:-1:-1 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.15 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-3 threads=3 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=abr mbtree=1 bitrate=500 ratetol=1.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00
Output #0, mp4, to '/tmp/output.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt
    minor_version   : 537331968
    compatible_brands: qt  niko
    encoder         : Lavf55.26.100
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (libx264) ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1280:1281 DAR 16:9], q=-1--1, 500 kb/s, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-11-01 14:41:24
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-11-01 14:41:24
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 -> libx264)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (pcm_s16le -> aac)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=   69 fps= 33 q=-1.0 Lsize=     157kB time=00:00:02.23 bitrate= 574.3kbits/s
video:121kB audio:32kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.296513%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] frame I:1     Avg QP:33.37  size: 15101
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] frame P:33    Avg QP:34.68  size:  2525
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] frame B:35    Avg QP:40.18  size:   722
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] consecutive B-frames:  2.9% 84.1% 13.0%  0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] mb I  I16..4: 14.0% 60.1% 26.0%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] mb P  I16..4:  0.5%  1.6%  0.2%  P16..4: 28.5%  5.8%  2.7%  0.0%  0.0%    skip:60.7%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] mb B  I16..4:  0.0%  0.1%  0.0%  B16..8: 30.6%  1.3%  0.1%  direct: 0.3%  skip:67.6%  L0:31.4% L1:67.2% BI: 1.4%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] final ratefactor: 30.48
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] 8x8 transform intra:64.0% inter:79.7%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 51.2% 65.9% 33.0% inter: 3.8% 5.1% 0.4%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] i16 v,h,dc,p: 41% 21%  9% 29%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 22% 17% 21%  6%  5%  5%  6%  6% 12%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 37% 24% 15%  4%  4%  6%  4%  4%  4%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] i8c dc,h,v,p: 52% 17% 25%  6%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] Weighted P-Frames: Y:12.1% UV:0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] ref P L0: 65.7% 18.2% 10.8%  4.8%  0.5%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] ref B L0: 87.2% 12.7%  0.1%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] ref B L1: 99.8%  0.2%
[libx264 @ 0x4011b40] kb/s:429.77
Received signal 2: terminating.

[tsmgeek]

Ive noticed an old pull request #5 asking this to be changed to -qscale from -q, back then really they should have put -q:v

[buggedcom]

When I have some time I will look at doing this based on your suggestion of switching around the version number.

[buggedcom]

I'm creating a new branch called feature/stream-specifiers that will attempt to add in stream specifier functionality.