with usable configuration, the codec must be defined and the
essential information such as video dimension or audio sample rate must be present.
</p>
<p>Note that in <code>ffmpeg</code>, matching by metadata will only work properly for
input files.
</p></dd>
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<p>These options are shared amongst the ff* tools.
</p>
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<dt>&lsquo;<samp>-L</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><