[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] document a couple more x264 options in mencoder.xml
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Tue May 31 11:09:00 CEST 2005
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:38:14AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>
> On 5/31/05, Jeff Clagg <snacky at ikaruga.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > There's a related issue here, which is separating the function of the
> > man page and the function of the xml docs. With lavc, it's now pretty
> > much an accomplished fact that the manpage is an exhaustive list of all
> > options, with terse (but well-worded) technical explanations of what
> > each option actually does.
>
> BTW, if you can come up with better descriptions for lavc options,
> you're welcome to do so. (yeah, I know I'm the one who was told to do
> so, but I guess it doesn't hurt to unify our workforce)
Yes. The man page is exhaustive, but it is far from well-worded. I'd
call the lavc option descriptions very terse but probably correct. Just
compare with the xvid and x264 option descriptions, they're much better.
And yes, any help improving them is much appreciated :-)
Diego
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