doc/ffmpeg: clarify behaviour of -discard

Discarding all frames is universally supported as it happens in fftools
whereas selective discarding relies on the demuxer.

diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index 3687ab0d5ce0d6ea58db7b538116b06c27e7a9f1..8a36a9699de4d94e345309f79bf5af9567690cf3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -1640,8 +1640,10 @@ This allows dumping sdp information when at least one output isn't an
 rtp stream. (Requires at least one of the output formats to be rtp).
 
 @item -discard (@emph{input})
-Allows discarding specific streams or frames of streams at the demuxer.
-Not all demuxers support this.
+Allows discarding specific streams or frames from streams.
+Any input stream can be fully discarded, using value @code{all} whereas
+selective discarding of frames from a stream occurs at the demuxer
+and is not supported by all demuxers.
 
 @table @option
 @item none