CLI options clarification

[plondino]

I am looking to get a bit of clarification on some of the cli options:

• Are Full and Complete essentially the same option? Is Complete deprecated since it doesn't appear in the help message?
• ParseSpeed doesn't appear in the help message - I understand that ParseSpeed=1 does a full parse of the file, is it just 0 (off) and 1 (on) or are there other settings? Interestingly, setting ParseSpeed=0 has a slightly different output than leaving it out altogether: 389HR.mediainfo.xml.txt 389HR.mediainfo-parsespeed-0.xml.txt 389HR.mediainfo-parsespeed-1.xml.txt

[JeromeMartinez]

Are Full and Complete essentially the same option?

Yes.

Is Complete deprecated since it doesn't appear in the help message?

I need to clarify that, currently both are synonyms and I should "kill" one at some point. Help message also need a lot of cleanup / expansion :(.

ParseSpeed doesn't appear in the help message

I am so late on the documentation, not a priority for anybody then lot of questions... So need to be done at some point.

I understand that ParseSpeed=1 does a full parse of the file, is it just 0 (off) and 1 (on) or are there other settings?

Part of the doc I need to create, a quick version:

• -1 is "fastest", new (this year), currently only for MXF, super fast parsing, only MXF headers, done for a customer who wanted to quickly scan thousands of files and accepting to rely on only the MXF headers and not the essence contents
• 0 is "faster" parsing, reducing the count of bytes read, but less information (captions detection, GOP size...)
• 0.3 exists also for some edge cases, something in between
• 0.5 is default parsing, balance between bytes read and output completeness
• 0.7 is "slower" parsing sometimes looking for more tips in the file
• 1 is "slowest" parsing, full parsing