changeset 30569:98b6d4c82ab6

Document several new x264 parameters.

--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Wed Feb 17 21:45:53 2010 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Wed Feb 17 21:49:17 2010 +0000
@@ -10120,6 +10120,13 @@
 are just as big as I-frames, but do not reset the "keyint counter".
 .
 .TP
+.B (no)intra_refresh
+Periodic intra block refresh instead of keyframes (default: disabled).
+This option disables IDR-frames, and, instead, uses a moving vertical bar
+of intra-coded blocks. This reduces compression efficiency but benefits
+low-latency streaming and resilience to packet loss.
+.
+.TP
 .B frameref=<1\-16>
 Number of previous frames used as predictors in B- and P-frames (default: 3).
 This is effective in anime, but in live-action material the improvements
@@ -10206,6 +10213,20 @@
 frames (default: 4)
 .
 .TP
+.B (no)mbtree
+Enable macroblock tree ratecontrol (default: enabled).
+Use a large lookahead to track temporal propagation of data and weight quality
+accordingly.
+In multi-pass mode, this writes to a separate stats file named
+<passlogfile>.mbtree.
+.
+.TP
+.B rc_lookahead=<0\-250>
+Adjust the mbtree lookahead distance (default: 40).
+Larger values will be slower and cause x264 to consume more memory, but can
+yield higher quality.
+.
+.TP
 .B ratetol=<0.1\-100.0> (ABR or two pass)
 allowed variance in average bitrate (no particular units) (default: 1.0)
 .
@@ -10298,6 +10319,20 @@
 .RE
 .
 .TP
+.B weightp
+Weighted P-frame prediction mode (default: 2).
+.PD 0
+.RSs
+.IPs 0
+disabled (fastest)
+.IPs 1
+blind mode (slightly better quality)
+.IPs 2
+smart mode (best)
+.RE
+.PD 1
+.
+.TP
 .B (no)weight_b
 Use weighted prediction in B-frames.
 Without this option, bidirectionally predicted macroblocks give
@@ -10455,6 +10490,11 @@
 .PD 1
 .
 .TP
+.B (no)psy
+Enable psychovisual optimizations that hurt PSNR and SSIM but ought to look
+better (default: enabled).
+.
+.TP
 .B deadzone_inter=<0\-32>
 Set the size of the inter luma quantization deadzone for non-trellis
 quantization (default: 21).
@@ -10592,6 +10632,37 @@
 appropriate number of threads.
 .
 .TP
+.B (no)sliced_threads
+Use slice-based threading (default: disabled).
+Unlike normal threading, this option adds no encoding latency, but is slightly
+slower and less effective at compression.
+.
+.TP
+.B slice_max_size=<0 or positive integer>
+Maximum slice size in bytes (default:0).
+A value of zero disables the maximum.
+.
+.TP
+.B slice_max_mbs=<0 or positive integer>
+Maximum slice size in number of macroblocks (default:0).
+A value of zero disables the maximum.
+.
+.TP
+.B slices=<0 or positive integer>
+Maximum number of slices per frame (default:0).
+A value of zero disables the maximum.
+.
+.TP
+.B sync_lookahead=<0\-250>
+Adjusts the size of the threaded lookahead buffer (default: 0).
+0 or 'auto' tells x264 to automatically determine buffer size.
+.
+.TP
+.B (no)deterministic
+Use only deterministic optimizations with multithreaded encoding (default:
+enabled).
+.
+.TP
 .B (no)global_header
 Causes SPS and PPS to appear only once, at the beginning of the bitstream
 (default: disabled).
@@ -10603,6 +10674,16 @@
 Treat the video content as interlaced.
 .
 .TP
+.B (no)constrained_intra
+Enable constrained intra prediction (default: disabled).
+This significantly reduces compression, but is required for the base layer of
+SVC encodes.
+.
+.TP
+.B (no)aud
+Write access unit delimeters to the stream (default: disabled).
+.
+.TP
 .B log=<\-1\-3>
 Adjust the amount of logging info printed to the screen.
 .PD 0
@@ -10644,6 +10725,11 @@
 the encoding process, in which x264 will attempt to present an overview of
 how each frame gets encoded.
 Each block type on the visualized movie will be colored as follows:
+.
+.TP
+.B dump_yuv=<file name>
+Dump YUV frames to the specified file.
+For debugging use.
 .PD 0
 .RSs
 .IPs red/pink