[MPlayer-DOCS] xvid encoding options

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Sun Sep 26 23:23:11 CEST 2004


On Sunday, 26 September 2004 at 23:19, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 September 2004 at 23:03, Loren Merritt wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > >On Sunday, 26 September 2004 at 21:12, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > >>Le dim 26/09/2004 ? 20:53, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
> > >>
> > >>>2. It's -ovc xvid, not -ovc xvidenc as the manpage says now.
> > >>
> > >>The manpage doesn't say such thing.
> > >>Though it does read:
> > >>NOTE: Use -ovc help to get a list of available video codecs, which
> > >>output is correct, at least with my cvs version.
> > >
> > >Oh, but it does. Twice, in fact.
> > >[...]
> > >CODEC SPECIFIC ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)
> > >      You can specify codec specific encoding parameters using the 
> > >      following syntax:
> > >
> > >      -<codec>opts <option1[=value],option2,...>
> > >
> > >      Where <codec> may be: lavc, xvidenc, divx4, lame, x264enc
> > >                                  ^^^^^^^
> > >[...]
> > >  xvidenc (-xvidencopts)
> > >      There are three modes available: constant bitrate (CBR), fixed 
> > >      quantizer and 2pass.
> > >[...]
> > 
> > The options as of today's CVS are:
> > -ovc xvid
> > -xvidencopts
> > 
> > So the man page is correct, and -ovc help is also correct.
[...]
> Please get your facts straight first.

OK, I'm sorry, I'm a bit wrong, too. You're right about "-<codec>opts", but
I'll insist that "xvidenc (-xvidencopts)" should read "xvid
(-xvidencopts)", similarly to "lavc (-lavcopts)".

R.

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