[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] manpage update?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:37:11PM +0200, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> > >     - vfwopts, aq (lameopts) and gray (lavcopts)
> > aq is audio quality
> 
> hmm, what's q for then?

OK, here's the deal on q and aq. Originally, there was just one
option, q. In VBR mode, it controlled the VBR quality (higher q =
higher bitrate), but in CBR mode, it controlled LAME's quality setting
(higher q = much slower to encode but generates better sounding
output). There was no way to control this latter quality setting when
in VBR mode, and overloading the q option for two unrelated functions
just made no sense, so after discussing it a bit on the list, I added
the aq option for the second quality setting. Theoretically aq is
supposed to stand for "algorithm quality".

Rich