summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--doc/ffmpeg.texi6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index 85ce4369bd..d433d60ce9 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ ffmpeg [@var{global_options}] @{[@var{input_file_options}] -i @file{input_url}@}
@chapter Description
@c man begin DESCRIPTION
-@command{ffmpeg} is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from
-a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample
-rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.
+@command{ffmpeg} is a universal media converter. It can read a wide variety of
+inputs - including live grabbing/recording devices - filter, and transcode them
+into a plethora of output formats.
@command{ffmpeg} reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be regular
files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), specified by the