This is needed for some of the frei0r filters (facebl0r and facedetect) which accept string parameters. Fixes the issue described here: http://www.ffmpeg-archive.org/Unable-to-set-ffmpeg-frei0r-facedetect-filter-parameter-td4680190.html Signed-off-by: Raphael Graf <r@undefined.ch>tags/n4.1