[MPlayer-DOCS] incomprehensibility in encoding guide

[Andrew Savchenko]

On 3 Jan 2007 23:08 Corey Hickey wrote:
> > Assuming that the doc is correct (maybe Loren can confirm
> > this), then yes, I think mbcmp should be dropped.
>
> This sounds familiar. Take a look here:
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2003-October/02
>9913.html
>
> As far as I can tell from the code and a couple quick tests, the
> situation with mbd and mbcmp is still the same: when all other
> *cmp options are 0 (the default), making mbcmp nonzero will have
> a beneficial effect on quality regardless of what mbd is set to.
> When mbd is set to 1 or 2, the specific value of mbcmp is
> ignored, except to check whether it is nonzero. When mbd is 0,
> the specific value of mbcmp matters.

So, maybe manpage should be updated to clarify this?
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