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authorgpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2004-09-22 15:03:13 +0000
committergpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2004-09-22 15:03:13 +0000
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Better lumi/dark_masking descriptions, tips for 4mv and autoaspect and 10l fix
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@13437 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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-rw-r--r--DOCS/man/en/mplayer.122
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 7404a26c31..035fd7fed2 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -5301,7 +5301,7 @@ log (low quality)
.IPs 3
phods (low quality)
.IPs 4
-EPZS (default)
+EPZS: size=1 diamond (default)
.IPs 5
X1 (experimental)
.RE
@@ -5334,6 +5334,7 @@ Same as mbd=1, kept for compatibility reasons.
.TP
.B v4mv\ \ \
Allow 4 motion vectors per macroblock (slightly better quality).
+Works better if used with mbd>0.
.
.TP
.B obmc\ \ \
@@ -5454,6 +5455,8 @@ The aspect parameter can be given as a ratio or a floating point number.
Same as the aspect option, but automatically computes aspect, taking
into account all the adjustments (crop/\:expand/\:scale/\:etc.) made in the
filter chain.
+Does not incur a performance penalty, so you can safely leave it
+always on.
.
.TP
.B vbitrate=<value>
@@ -5793,7 +5796,12 @@ sh4
.
.TP
.B lumi_mask=<0.0\-1.0>
-luminance masking
+Luminance masking is a 'psychosensory' setting that is supposed to
+make use of the fact that the human eye tends to notice less details
+in very bright parts of the picture.
+Luminance masking compresses bright areas stronger than medium ones,
+so it will save bits that can be spent again on other frames, raising
+overall subjective quality, while possibly reducing PSNR.
.br
.I WARNING:
Be careful, overly large values can cause disastrous things.
@@ -5810,7 +5818,12 @@ sane range
.
.TP
.B dark_mask=<0.0\-1.0>
-darkness masking
+Darkness masking is a 'psychosensory' setting that is supposed to
+make use of the fact that the human eye tends to notice less details
+in very drak parts of the picture.
+Darkness masking compresses dark areas stronger than medium ones,
+so it will save bits that can be spent again on other frames, raising
+overall subjective quality, while possibly reducing PSNR.
.br
.I WARNING:
Be careful, overly large values can cause disastrous things.
@@ -6010,9 +6023,6 @@ If you prefer to keep some noise in your encoded video rather than
filtering it away before encoding, this setting controls NSSE weight,
where larger weights will result in more noise.
0 NSSE is identical to SSE.
-
-NSSE weight, larger weights will result in more noise,
-with 0 NSSE is identical to SSE.
.
.TP
.B predia=<-99\-6>