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authorwight <wight@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2004-08-18 08:03:10 +0000
committerwight <wight@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2004-08-18 08:03:10 +0000
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Consistency, punctuation, some minor fixes/clarifications.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@13040 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS')
-rw-r--r--DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1105
1 files changed, 57 insertions, 48 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 8a6479f215..6d4bf720ea 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ using the \-input option.
.IPs "<\- and \->"
seek backward/\:forward 10 seconds
.IPs "up and down"
-seek backward/\:forward 1 minute
+seek backward/\:forward 1 minute
.IPs "pgup and pgdown"
seek backward/\:forward 10 minutes
.IPs "< and >"
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ decrease/\:increase panscan range
.IPs o\ \ \ \
toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time
.IPs d\ \ \ \
-toggle frame dropping states: none / skip display / skip decoding
+toggle frame dropping states: none / skip display / skip decoding
(see \-framedrop and \-hardframedrop)
.IPs v\ \ \ \
toggle subtitle visibility
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ Specify the VOBsub subtitle ID.
.SH "AUDIO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-abs <value> (OBSOLETE)
-Override audio driver/\:card buffer size detection, \-ao oss only
+Override audio driver/\:card buffer size detection, \-ao oss only.
.TP
.B \-aofile <filename>
Filename for \-ao pcm.
@@ -1487,9 +1487,9 @@ Available options are:
.RSs
.IPs list=[plugins]
comma separated list of plugins (resample, surround, format, volume,
-extrastereo, volnorm)
+extrastereo, volnorm, delay)
.IPs delay=<sec>
-example plugin, do not use.
+example plugin, do not use (delay plugin only)
.IPs format=<format>
output format (format plugin only)
.IPs fout=<Hz>
@@ -1519,25 +1519,25 @@ A-Law
.IPs 4
Ima-ADPCM
.IPs 8
-Signed 8-bit
+signed 8-bit
.IPs 16
-Unsigned 8-bit
+unsigned 8-bit
.IPs 32
-Unsigned 16-bit (Little-Endian)
+unsigned 16-bit (little-endian)
.IPs 64
-Unsigned 16-bit (Big-Endian)
+unsigned 16-bit (big-endian)
.IPs 128
-Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
+signed 16-bit (little-endian)
.IPs 256
-Signed 16-bit (Big-Endian)
+signed 16-bit (big-endian)
.IPs 512
MPEG (2) Audio
.IPs 1024
AC3
.IPs 4096
-Signed 32-bit (Little-Endian)
+signed 32-bit (little-endian)
.IPs 8192
-Signed 32-bit (Big-Endian)
+signed 32-bit (big-endian)
.RE
.PD 1
.
@@ -1723,7 +1723,6 @@ very little video memory.
.TP
.B \-dr \ \ \
Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs)
-(default is off).
Warning: may cause OSD/\:SUB corruption!
.TP
.B \-dxr2 <option1:option2:...>
@@ -3309,7 +3308,7 @@ It's only useful together with expand+scale
(\-vf dvbscale,scale=-1:0,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,lavc).
.RSs
.IPs aspect
-control aspect ratio, calculate as DVB_HEIGHT*ASPECTRATIO (default:
+Control aspect ratio, calculate as DVB_HEIGHT*ASPECTRATIO (default:
576*4/3=768), set it to 576*(16/9)=1024 for a 16:9 TV.
.RE
.TP
@@ -3627,7 +3626,7 @@ up from their original framerate for TV.
Only the luma plane is used to find the frame breaks.
If a field has no match, it is deinterlaced with simple linear
approximation.
-If the source is MPEG-2, and this must be the first filter to allow
+If the source is MPEG-2, this must be the first filter to allow
access to the field-flags set by the MPEG-2 decoder.
Depending on the source MPEG, you may be fine ignoring this advice, as
long as you do not see lots of "Bottom-first field" warnings.
@@ -3972,7 +3971,7 @@ size of image/area
.IPs "xpos, ypos"
start blitting at X/Y position
.IPs alpha
-set alpha difference.
+Set alpha difference.
If you set this to -255 you can then send a sequence of ALPHA-commands to set
the area to -225, -200, -175 etc for a nice fade-in-effect! ;)
.RSss
@@ -4573,13 +4572,13 @@ equal to or lower than vqmin (default: 2.0).
.RE
.TP
.B lmax=<0.01\-255.0>
-maximum lagrange multiplier for ratecontrol (default: 31.0).
+maximum lagrange multiplier for ratecontrol (default: 31.0)
.RE
.TP
.B vqscale=<1\-31>
Constant quantizer /\: constant quality encoding (selects fixed quantizer mode).
A lower value means better quality but larger files (default: 0 (disabled)).
-1 is not recommended (see \-vqmin for details).
+1 is not recommended (see vqmin for details).
.TP
.B vqmax=<1\-31>
maximum quantizer (pass\ 1/\:2) 10\-31 should be a sane range (default: 31)
@@ -4749,6 +4748,9 @@ approximated filesize tolerance in kBit.
1000\-100000 is a sane range.
(warning: 1kBit = 1000 Bits)
(default: 8000)
+.I NOTE:
+vratetol should not be too large during the second pass or there might
+be problems if vrc_(min|max)rate is used.
.TP
.B vrc_maxrate=<value>
maximum bitrate in kbit/\:sec (pass\ 1/\:2)
@@ -4760,9 +4762,6 @@ minimum bitrate in kbit/\:sec (pass\ 1/\:2)
buffer size in kbit (pass\ 1/\:2).
For MPEG1/2 this also sets the vbv buffer size, use 327 for VCD,
917 for SVCD and 1835 for DVD.
-.I NOTE:
-vratetol should not be too large during the second pass or there might
-be problems if vrc_(min|max)rate is used.
.TP
.B vrc_buf_aggressivity
currently useless
@@ -4911,7 +4910,7 @@ use a nice differentiable function (default)
.PD 1
.TP
.B vlelim=<-1000\-1000>
-single coefficient elimination threshold for luminance.
+Sets single coefficient elimination threshold for luminance.
Negative values will also consider the dc coefficient (should be at least -4
or lower for encoding at quant=1):
.PD 0
@@ -4924,7 +4923,7 @@ disabled (default)
.PD 1
.TP
.B vcelim=<-1000\-1000>
-single coefficient elimination threshold for chrominance.
+Sets single coefficient elimination threshold for chrominance.
Negative values will also consider the dc coefficient (should be at least -4
or lower for encoding at quant=1):
.PD 0
@@ -5039,9 +5038,13 @@ sh4
.PD 1
.TP
.B lumi_mask=<0.0\-1.0>
-luminance masking.
-Warning: Be careful, too large values can cause disastrous things.
-Warning2: Large values might look good on some monitors but may look horrible
+luminance masking
+.br
+.I WARNING:
+Be careful, too large values can cause disastrous things.
+.br
+.I WARNING:
+Large values might look good on some monitors but may look horrible
on other monitors:
.RSs
.IPs 0.0
@@ -5051,9 +5054,13 @@ sane range
.RE
.TP
.B dark_mask=<0.0\-1.0>
-darkness masking.
-Warning: be careful, too large values can cause disasterous things.
-Warning2: large values might look good on some monitors but may look horrible
+darkness masking
+.br
+.I WARNING:
+Be careful, too large values can cause disasterous things.
+.br
+.I WARNING:
+Large values might look good on some monitors but may look horrible
on other monitors / TV / TFT:
.RSs
.IPs 0.0
@@ -5066,10 +5073,12 @@ sane range
temporal complexity masking (default: 0.0 (disabled))
.TP
.B scplx_mask=<0.0\-1.0>
-spatial complexity masking.
+Spatial complexity masking.
Larger values help against blockiness, if no deblocking filter is used for
decoding.
-Tip: Crop any black borders completely as they will reduce the quality
+.br
+.I HINT:
+Crop any black borders completely as they will reduce the quality
of the macro blocks (also applies without scplx_mask).
.RSs
.IPs 0.0
@@ -5279,13 +5288,13 @@ sum of squared errors of the quantization
.PD 1
.TP
.B cbp\ \ \ \
-Rate distorted optimal coded block pattern
-will select the coded block pattern which minimizes distortion + lambda*rate
-this can only be used together with trellis quantization
+Rate distorted optimal coded block pattern.
+Will select the coded block pattern which minimizes distortion + lambda*rate.
+This can only be used together with trellis quantization.
.TP
.B mv0\ \ \ \
-try to encode each MB with MV=<0,0> and choose the better one
-this has no effect if mbd=0
+Try to encode each MB with MV=<0,0> and choose the better one.
+This has no effect if mbd=0.
.TP
.B qprd\ \ \
rate distorted optimal QP for the given lambda of each macroblock, note this
@@ -5327,7 +5336,7 @@ and store the per frame psnr in a file with a name like 'psnr_hhmmss.log'.
Returned values are in dB (decibel), the higher the better.
.TP
.B mpeg_quant
-Use MPEG quantizers instead of H.263 (i.e.\& use H.263 quantizers).
+Use MPEG quantizers instead of H.263.
.TP
.B aic\ \ \ \
ac prediction (=advanced intra prediction for H.263+)
@@ -5349,8 +5358,8 @@ MPEG style quantizer default: 96
H.263 style quantizer default: 0
.br
.I NOTE:
-The H.263 MMX quantizer cannot handle positive biases (set vfdct=1or2),
-the MPEG MMX quantizer cannot handle negative biases (set vfdct=1or2).
+The H.263 MMX quantizer cannot handle positive biases (set vfdct=1 or 2),
+the MPEG MMX quantizer cannot handle negative biases (set vfdct=1 or 2).
.TP
.B pbias=<-256\-256>
inter quantizer bias (256 == 1.0)
@@ -5360,8 +5369,8 @@ MPEG style quantizer default: 0
H.263 style quantizer default: -64
.br
.I NOTE:
-The H.263 MMX quantizer cannot handle positive biases (set vfdct=1or2),
-the MPEG MMX quantizer cannot handle negative biases (set vfdct=1or2).
+The H.263 MMX quantizer cannot handle positive biases (set vfdct=1 or 2),
+the MPEG MMX quantizer cannot handle negative biases (set vfdct=1 or 2).
.br
Tip: a more positive bias (-32 \- -16 instead of -64) seems to improve the PSNR
.TP
@@ -5369,11 +5378,11 @@ Tip: a more positive bias (-32 \- -16 instead of -64) seems to improve the PSNR
noise reduction, 0 is disabled
.TP
.B qns=<0\-3>
-quantizer noise shaping, reduces ringing artefacts, larger values are slower
-but may not result in better quality
-this can and should be used together with trellis quantization, in which case
-the trellis quantization (optimal for constant weight) will be used as startpoint
-for the iterative search.
+Quantizer noise shaping, reduces ringing artefacts, larger values are slower
+but may not result in better quality.
+This can and should be used together with trellis quantization, in which case
+the trellis quantization (optimal for constant weight) will be used as
+startpoint for the iterative search.
.PD 0
.RSs
.IPs 0
@@ -5556,7 +5565,7 @@ This will generate an illegal bitstream, and WILL NOT be
decodable by ISO-MPEG4 decoders except DivX/libavcodec/XviD.
.br
.I WARNING:
-this will also store a fake DivX version in the file so the bug
+This will also store a fake DivX version in the file so the bug
autodetection of some decoders might be confused.
.TP
.B divx5bvop