[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Snow encoding draft

[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:19:01AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:45:00AM +0200, Guillaume Poirier
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> As such, you will need to add vstrict=-1 to you command line to
>>>> let MPlayer allow an encode.
>>> 
>>> For this reason, MEncoder will not encode without 'vstrict=-1' on
>>> the command line.
>> 
>> ITYM "-vstrict'. Also, this usage of -vstrict is not represented in
>> the man page; should it be added? Are there others?
> 
> No, it's a lavc option:

<snip>

So it is. I checked the man page before posting, but didn't recognize
the nearby options as being libavcodec-specific; apparently I hadn't
looked far enough.

And for some insane reason I read the '-1' as '2' - probably in part
because of the incredibly annoying way my system has handled hyphens in
man pages since I screwed up my locale settings somewhere a few years
back. It might have helped if the values had been listed in numerical
order, although I can see where having the default or the "disabled"
value (which in this case are the same) right up front.

>>> Start full sentences capitalized after a colon.
>> 
>> I think this is incorrect (certainly it wasn't given as a rule in
>> my otherwise reasonably strict English class a few years back), but
>> I don't have any citations to back that up offhand.
> 
> I'm quite certain it is a rule in German.  I'm not entirely sure
> about English, but at least it makes sense and is the way I've
> handled it in the rest of the documentation.

<shrug> Well, I do know that at least there isn't a rule against doing
it that way, so I won't raise a stink about the matter.

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