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author | Niklas Haas <git@nand.wakku.to> | 2014-02-25 13:51:25 +0100 |
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committer | Niklas Haas <git@nand.wakku.to> | 2014-02-25 17:23:46 +0100 |
commit | 90b4923f4abef6d34a3abef3b416a364338ad67e (patch) | |
tree | 09e2aa324c794e4de05a87830d71007988603fc4 | |
parent | 36bc6e04ea395a9859e35dbd3f915eea33a67aa2 (diff) | |
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manpage: Improve wording on icc-approx-gamma
This version is clearer on its origin, prevalence and use case and
offers some advice to the user.
-rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/en/vo.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst b/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst index 9e74cc9f3d..c42ac35771 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst @@ -464,11 +464,11 @@ Available video output drivers are: ``icc-approx-gamma`` Approximate the actual BT.709 gamma function as a pure power curve of - 1.95. This is not quite correct, but it was historically used as a - faster version of the actual function, and seems to still be used by - many video editing programs and perhaps even studios. If you find your - videos displaying ever so slightly slightly brighter than you'd expect - them to, try enabling this option. + 1.95. A number of video editing programs and studios apparently use this + for mastering instead of the true curve. Most notably, anything in the + Apple ecosystem uses this approximation - including all programs + compatible with it. It's a sound idea to try enabling this flag first + when watching movies and shows to see if things look better that way. ``3dlut-size=<r>x<g>x<b>`` Size of the 3D LUT generated from the ICC profile in each dimension. |