Supporting arbitrary video_bit_rate outside of video_quality for tools and dealing with changing command flags

[Seth Thomas Rasmussen]

I'm looking to add support for setting video_bit_rate arbitrarily
independent of the existing video_quality settings.

I noticed when looking at the current format_video_quality method in
the ffmpeg tool that it uses -v to specify the video bit rate. I am
assuming this was correct for older versions of ffmpeg? In the latest
builds, -v is for verbosity of logging and -b is for video bit rate.

My thinking is to add a configurable Ffmpeg.video_bit_rate_parameter
attribute which will default to "b".

Does that seem like a good approach? Should it default to the old value instead?

I just started hacking at this. I have some changes that would look
like so: http://gist.github.com/67074

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