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diff DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 @ 13053:d59a2274442c
better description of the chroma_opt XviD option
patch by Guillaume POIRIER <gpoirier@irisa.fr>
| author | diego |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:45:07 +0000 |
| parents | 27c1f3ae682e |
| children | 29d8052f48f7 |
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--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Thu Aug 19 12:10:07 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Thu Aug 19 14:45:07 2004 +0000 @@ -5627,6 +5627,13 @@ .TP .B chroma_opt Enable a chroma optimizer prefilter. +It will do some extra magic on color information to minimize the +stepped-stairs effect on edges. +It will improve quality at the cost of encoding speed. +It reduces PSNR by nature, as the mathematical deviation to the original +picture will get bigger, but the subjective image quality will raise. +Since it works with color information, you might want to turn it off when +encoding in greyscale. .TP .B reduced Enable encoding reduced-resolution frames.