[MPlayer-DOCS] xvid encoding options

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 26 September 2004 at 21:12, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Le dim 26/09/2004 ? 20:53, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
> > Hi.
> > 
> > 1. 4mv is not valid for xvid > 0.9.x, while the manpage doesn't say so.
> 
> I've spent a lot of my personal time a to improve xvid section lately,
> so I'd appreciate you'd double check with CVS before sending such a
> message.

deprecated != invalid. Check your dictionary. :P

"deprecated" means "still valid, but you should use something else instead".

I wonder if any other "deprecated" options have already been phased out
and are no longer valid.

> > 2. It's -ovc xvid, not -ovc xvidenc as the manpage says now.
> 
> The manpage doesn't say such thing.
> Though it does read:
> NOTE: Use -ovc help to get a list of available video codecs, which
> output is correct, at least with my cvs version.

Oh, but it does. Twice, in fact.
[...]
CODEC SPECIFIC ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)
       You can specify codec specific encoding parameters using the following syntax:

       -<codec>opts <option1[=value],option2,...>

       Where <codec> may be: lavc, xvidenc, divx4, lame, x264enc
                                   ^^^^^^^
[...]
   xvidenc (-xvidencopts)
       There are three modes available: constant bitrate (CBR), fixed quantizer and 2pass.
[...]

> > You know what to do. ;)
> 
> Yes, please, next time, check with a fresh CVS... or send a nice patch!

I would, if I had some more free time. Besides, you're doing such a nice
job that I wouldn't want to get in the way. :P

R.

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