Author: gpoirier Date: Sat Nov 25 16:17:21 2006 New Revision: 21221 Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Log: improve description of x264's deadzone* options Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Sat Nov 25 16:17:21 2006 @@ -9418,11 +9418,21 @@ .B deadzone_inter=<0\-32> Set the size of the inter luma quantization deadzone for non-trellis quantization (default: 21). +Lower values help preserving fine details and film grain (typically useful +for high bitrate/quality encode), while higher values will help filter out +these details to save bits that can be spent again on other macro-blocs +and frames (typically useful for bitrate-starved encodes). +It's recommended that you start by tweaking deadzone_inter before changing +this parameter. . .TP .B deadzone_intra=<0\-32> Set the size of the intra luma quantization deadzone for non-trellis quantization (default: 11). +This option has the same effect as deadzone_inter except that it affect +intra frames. +It's recommended that you start by tweaking this parameter before changing +deadzone_inter. . .TP .B (no)fast_pskip