# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1092926707 0 # Node ID d59a2274442cbc5b42a9ef0d0417648ceaf21d0b # Parent 27c1f3ae682e0afd3fc5ee96c70055adbd409815 better description of the chroma_opt XviD option patch by Guillaume POIRIER diff -r 27c1f3ae682e -r d59a2274442c DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 --- 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.