CVS change done by Corey Hickey Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv24719/DOCS/man/en Modified Files: mplayer.1 Log Message: More detailed description of brd_scale. Index: mplayer.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1,v retrieving revision 1.1218 retrieving revision 1.1219 diff -u -r1.1218 -r1.1219 --- mplayer.1 29 Jan 2006 14:07:59 -0000 1.1218 +++ mplayer.1 29 Jan 2006 19:56:35 -0000 1.1219 @@ -6897,8 +6897,13 @@ .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. +Both dimensions of the fully downscaled frame must be even numbers, so +brd_scale=1 requires the original dimensions to be multiples of four, +brd_scale=2 requires multiples of eight, etc. +In other words, the dimensions of the original frame must both be +divisible by 2^(brd_scale+1) with no remainder. . .TP .B bidir_refine=<0\-4>