[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] improving encoding guide

[Nico Sabbi]

Guillaume Poirier wrote:

>Hi there,
>I've worked a bit on improving the encoding guide. It's far from
>complete, but I guess it's a good start to get feedbacks as to whether
>I'm on good tracks or what.
>
>I'll start with very simple stuff, and further improve this guide with
>my experience and with some more tech stuff like some of Loren's
>explanations for people like me who love to understand what's
>happening.
>
>Regards,
>Guillaume
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><sect1 id="menc-feat-mpeg">
><title>Encoding to MPEG format</title>
><para>
><application>MEncoder</application> can create MPEG (MPEG-PS) format output
>files. It's probably useful only with
><link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>'s
><emphasis>mpeg1video</emphasis> codec, because players - except
><application>MPlayer</application> - expect MPEG-1 video, and MPEG-1 layer 2 (MP2)
>audio streams in MPEG files.
></para>
>
><para>
>This feature is not very useful right now, aside that it probably has many bugs,
>but the more importantly because <application>MEncoder</application> currently
>cannot encode MPEG-1 layer 2 (MP2) audio, which all other players expect in MPEG files.
></para>
>
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>

this part is really totally to rewrite, now