changeset 13545:28ff07e2df86

Better description of x264 PSNR stats. Patch by Loren Merritt
author gpoirier
date Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:40:32 +0000
parents b11c66fc5ace
children 93006742473c
files DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Mon Oct 04 18:34:39 2004 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Mon Oct 04 18:40:32 2004 +0000
@@ -6921,7 +6921,7 @@
 .br
 .I
 NOTE:
-Three pass and x264 support being quite recent in MEncoder, we welcome any
+x264 three pass support being quite recent in MEncoder, we welcome any
 feedback you could give us on good combinations of x264 options that are
 both fast and provide good quality.
 .REss
@@ -6986,7 +6986,14 @@
 .
 .TP
 .B psnr | nopsnr
-Print signal-to-noise ratio statistics (default: off).
+Print signal-to-noise ratio statistics.
+.br
+.I NOTE:
+The 'Y', 'U', 'V', and 'Avg' PSNR fields in the summary are not
+mathematically sound (they are simply the average of per-frame PSNRs).
+They are kept only for comparison to the JM reference codec.
+For all other purposes, please use either the 'Global' PSNR, or the per-frame
+PSNRs printed by log=3.
 .
 .
 .\" --------------------------------------------------------------------------