[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] more detailed description of brd_scale

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Sat Jan 28 00:17:27 CET 2006


Corey Hickey wrote:

> I'll commit this tomorrow if there are no objections/corrections.
> 
> -Corey
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Index: DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.1214
> diff -u -r1.1214 mplayer.1
> --- DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	24 Jan 2006 22:44:34 -0000	1.1214
> +++ DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	27 Jan 2006 22:40:01 -0000
> @@ -6897,8 +6897,11 @@
>  .TP
>  .B brd_scale=<0\-10>
>  Downscales frames for dynamic B-frame decision (default: 0).
> -Speed should increase by a factor of 4 every time brd_scale is increased
> -by 1.
> +Each time brd_scale is increased by one, the frame dimensions are
> +divided by two, which improves speed by a factor of four.
> +A given brd_scale value will work only if both dimensions can be evenly
> +divided by two that many times.
> +In other words, the dimensions must both be a multiple of 2^brd_scale.

It is not possible for two dimensions to be *a* multiple of X, unless
the dimensions are equal. The least ugly way to fix that (very minor)
problem would be to say "multiples" instead, and possiby drop the "both".

Other than that, looks good to me.

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