# HG changeset patch
# User gpoirier
# Date 1121810595 0
# Node ID 41ca23f65baa15547c4aea830b273119091ac0e8
# Parent a5d3b3b4bd4a1618d8d215625d2003d42bb2abd9
lacv supports cgop, you can use '.' to watch a video frame-by frame to
identify which type it is, and not short forms in the docs.
... now the question is, how many commits to fix this one ? :-)
diff -r a5d3b3b4bd4a -r 41ca23f65baa DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml Tue Jul 19 17:56:51 2005 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml Tue Jul 19 22:03:15 2005 +0000
@@ -736,9 +736,10 @@
Hint:MPlayer can slow down movie playback
- with the -speed option.
+ with the -speed option or play it frame-by-frame.
Try using 0.2 to watch the movie very
- slowly and identify the pattern, if you cannot see it at full speed.
+ slowly or press the "." key repeatedly to play one frame at a time
+ and identify the pattern, if you cannot see it at full speed.
@@ -1710,9 +1711,11 @@
vmax_b_frames: 1 or 2 is good, depending on
the movie.
- Note that libavcodec does not yet support closed GOP (the option
- does not currently work), so DivX5 will not be able to
- decode anything encoded with B-frames.
+ Note that if you need to have your encode being decodable by DivX5, you
+ need to activate closed GOP support, using
+ libavcodec
+ option, but you need to deactivate scene detection, which
+ is not a good idea as it will hurt encode efficiency a bit.
@@ -2682,7 +2685,7 @@
Activates a better coefficient cost estimation method, which slightly
reduces filesize by around 0.15 to 0.19%, while having a negligible
impact on speed.
- It's therefore recommended to always leave it on.
+ It is therefore recommended to always leave it on.