[MPlayer-users] wrong manpage example

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:16:03PM +0200, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> MPlayer dev-CVS-040908-04:00-3.3.3
> 
> this example from the manpage is wrong:
> 
> Encode all *.jpg files in the current dir:
> mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc  lavc  -lav-copts
> vcodec=mpeg4

looks like the - got stuck in the middle of -lavcopts during line
wrapping. it's not supposed to be there, obviously.

> it should be:
> mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc  lavc  vcodec=mpeg4

nope, this is definitely wrong. it only happens to work because:
1) your filename and all other options appear before the bogus
filename "vcodec=mpeg4"
2) mpeg4 is the default video codec.

rich