[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1111,1.1112

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:27:36PM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:21:00PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:22:20PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:51:23AM +0200, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > > 	mplayer.1 
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > frameno.avi is an audio file, not a statistics file, wording fix.
> > > 
> > > No, it actually contains the frame number mappings in the video
> > > stream. This is where the name comes from.
> > 
> > *sigh*
> > 
> > Then statistics file was actually the better description...
> > 
> > OK, let's attempt to get this settled:
> > 
> > .B \-frameno-file <filename> (DEPRECATED)
> > Specify the name of the framenumber mapping file created in the first
> > (audio only) pass of a special three pass encoding mode.
> 
> How about we just don't document it at all so people won't use it. :P

My policy is to document everything.  People can then make decisions for
themselves.  Besides this avoids discussions over what should be
documented and what should not...

> But yes, I think that's a correct explanation... although it doesn't 
> mention that the file is both an audio file and a frame number mapping...

OK, hopefully final try:

-frameno-file <filename> (DEPRECATED)
Specify the name of the audio file with framenumber mappings created in
the first (audio only) pass of a special three pass encoding mode.

Diego