The -m flag in HandBrakeCLI

cjr · Post by **cjr** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:37 pm

It looks like the -m flag takes an undocumented optional argument of a CSV file listing the chapter titles.

However, calling HandBrakeCLI with -m foo.csv doesn't cause foo.csv to get read (testing the 0.9.1 code on a Linux box running Centos 4). This appears to be because optarg is set to NULL when executing the case 'm' block.

A simple workaround that helped me was changing the string passed to getopt_long() to "[...]m:a[...]" instead of "[...]ma[...]". I suspect a more correct change would be to look at optind instead, but I'm not familiar with getopt() to see how.

jbrjake · Post by **jbrjake** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:27 pm

...or just use the latest source code, which already has this fixed.

cjr · Post by **cjr** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:49 pm

jbrjake wrote:...or just use the latest source code, which already has this fixed.

Ah, so it is

The program's help text could still do with an update to mention this feature.