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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2017-07-12 13:11:14 +0200
committerwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2017-07-12 13:11:14 +0200
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player: change default section when loading encoding-profiles.conf
It used to use the "encoding" section. Change this to the default section to remove another small special case. encoding-profiles.conf didn't use this by default anyway. The previous revert could mitigate potential impacts of this a little.
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diff --git a/DOCS/encoding.rst b/DOCS/encoding.rst
index fa3ffb8c4a..6f9cd1a390 100644
--- a/DOCS/encoding.rst
+++ b/DOCS/encoding.rst
@@ -95,12 +95,16 @@ As the options for various devices can get complex, profiles can be used.
An example profile file for encoding is provided in
etc/encoding-profiles.conf in the source tree. This file is installed and loaded
-by default (if libavfilter is enabled at compilation). If you want to modify
-it, you can replace and it with your own copy by doing::
+by default. If you want to modify it, you can replace and it with your own copy
+by doing::
mkdir -p ~/.mpv
cp /etc/mpv/encoding-profiles.conf ~/.mpv/encoding-profiles.conf
+Keep in mind that the default profile is the playback one. If you want to add
+options that apply only in encoding mode, put them into a ``[encoding]``
+section.
+
Refer to the top of that file for more comments - in a nutshell, the following
options are added by it::