# HG changeset patch
# User gpoirier
# Date 1164467841 0
# Node ID 8e957660fb4dd087fbe2c81b608fff48b87e73a0
# Parent  1ddb1a86e4199d464c308f971dcc1f3f7358cac5
improve description of x264's deadzone* options

diff -r 1ddb1a86e419 -r 8e957660fb4d DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Sat Nov 25 15:00:08 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Sat Nov 25 15:17:21 2006 +0000
@@ -9418,11 +9418,21 @@
 .B deadzone_inter=<0\-32>
 Set the size of the inter luma quantization deadzone for non-trellis
 quantization (default: 21).
+Lower values help preserving fine details and film grain (typically useful
+for high bitrate/quality encode), while higher values will help filter out
+these details to save bits that can be spent again on other macro-blocs
+and frames (typically useful for bitrate-starved encodes).
+It's recommended that you start by tweaking deadzone_inter before changing
+this parameter.
 .
 .TP
 .B deadzone_intra=<0\-32>
 Set the size of the intra luma quantization deadzone for non-trellis
 quantization (default: 11).
+This option has the same effect as deadzone_inter except that it affect
+intra frames.
+It's recommended that you start by tweaking this parameter before changing
+deadzone_inter.
 .
 .TP
 .B (no)fast_pskip