[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.779,1.780

[Diego Biurrun]

Alexander Strasser writes:
> Diego Biurrun wrote ( On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:02:34AM +0200 ):
> > Guillaume POIRIER writes:
> > > Le lun 18/10/2004 à 13:57, Torinthiel a écrit :
> > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:38:30PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > > > > What about:
> > > > > As decoding with XviD tends to be a bit slower than libavcodec
> > > > > you might want to use -vf pp and -vfm instead.
> > > > 
> > > > It's better, at least I can understand it.
> > > > Torinthiel
> > > 
> > > I just re-read my suggestion, and I'd like to suggest something else:
> > > As decoding with XviD tends to be a bit slow, you might want to use
> > > libavcodec's -vf pp filter and -vfm ffmpeg decoder instead.
> > > 
> > > Is that any better? (I don't quite like to say that XviD decoder is a
> > > bit slow, but I don't quite see how I may put that in a "smooth way")
> > 
> > Just say it in a positive way then and state that lavc is faster
> > instead of XviD being slower.
> 
> yeah, maybe better though i think it wasn't really offensive before.
> 
> But i would suppose to change at least the part at the end to this:
> 
> As decoding with XviD tends to be a bit slow, you might want to use
> libavcodec's postprocessing filter ( see -vf pp ) and decoder
> ( see -vfm ffmpeg ) instead.
> 
> for the sake of being more clear and easy to understand.

I've settled for the following:

  Since libavcodec is faster than XviD you might want to use the
  libavcodec postprocessing filter (\-vf pp) and decoder (\-vfm
  ffmpeg) instead.

> But wait for Diego to do his consistency nitpicking first.

:-)

Diego