@item -stdin
Enable interaction on standard input. On by default unless standard input is
-used as an input.
+used as an input. To explicitly disable interaction you need to specify
+@code{-nostdin}.
-Useful, for example, if ffmpeg is in the background process group. Roughly
-the same result can be achieved with @code{ffmpeg ... < /dev/null} but it
-requires a shell.
+Disabling interaction on standard input is useful, for example, if
+ffmpeg is in the background process group. Roughly the same result can
+be achieved with @code{ffmpeg ... < /dev/null} but it requires a
+shell.
@item -debug_ts (@emph{global})
Print timestamp information. It is off by default. This option is
Note that this is NOT SAME QUALITY. Do not use this option unless you know you
need it.
-@item -pass @var{n}
+@item -pass[:@var{stream_specifier}] @var{n} (@emph{output,per-stream})
Select the pass number (1 or 2). It is used to do two-pass
video encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first
pass into a log file (see also the option -passlogfile),
ffmpeg -i foo.mov -c:v libxvid -pass 1 -an -f rawvideo -y /dev/null
@end example
-@item -passlogfile @var{prefix} (@emph{global})
+@item -passlogfile[:@var{stream_specifier}] @var{prefix} (@emph{output,per-stream})
Set two-pass log file name prefix to @var{prefix}, the default file name
prefix is ``ffmpeg2pass''. The complete file name will be
@file{PREFIX-N.log}, where N is a number specific to the output