[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.538,1.539

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 00:19, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer writes:
>  > yes, i agree too, the issue with quicktime is either fixed already, or
>  > it should be dealt with in a different way like writing the user data
>  > somewhere else, yes i hate the idea too that we waste time to workaround
>  > buggy decoders but having to deal with files which dont contain the
>  > encoder version is far worse
>
> I've come to the conclusion that we should not advertise the QT issue
> at all.  If people want to use it to work around QT bugs fine, but
> that is their problem.
>
> Here's another try:
>
> bit_exact
>   Use only bit exact algorithms (except (i)dct).
>   Additionally bit_exact disables several optimizations and thus
>   should only be used for regression tests, which need binary
>   identical files even if the encoder version changes.
>   This also suppresses the user_data header in MPEG-4 streams.
>   Do not use this option unless you know exactly what you are doing.
perfect :)

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Michael
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