[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.735,1.736

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Thu Sep 23 18:09:39 CEST 2004


Diego Biurrun wrote:

> The Wanderer writes:
> 
>>Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:
>>
>>>  .B nssew=<0\-100>
>>> +If you prefer to keep some noise in your encoded video rather than
>>> +filtering it away before encoding, this setting controls NSSE weight,
>>> +where larger weights will result in more noise.
>>> +0 NSSE is identical to SSE.
>> 
>> Not exactly ideally phrased; the setting controls NSSE weight
>> regardless of what the users prefer, it's just that they don't have
>> to use it if they don't want to. Perhaps the simplest fix might be
>> to use "For those who prefer to"...? (Then again, the setting also
>> controls that weight for those who don't prefer to, so the problem
>> is just placed at a slightly greater remove.)
> 
> What about
> 
> This setting controls NSSE weight, where larger weights will result
> in more noise.  0 NSSE is identical to SSE.  You may find this useful
> if you prefer to keep some noise in your encoded video rather than 
> filtering it away before encoding.

Seems good to me. I tried phrasing a suggestion and it came out a little
like that, but seemed awkward to me because it didn't explain what "NSSE
weight" was before using the term; this doesn't do that either, but
seems OK. (Maybe I'm just more awake now than I was then.)

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