From b1c835e5964486da4bfb3674f34eccdddfa3b9fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:37:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] better description bit_exact lavc option git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@11939 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 index 510b56cb24..959d717421 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 +++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 @@ -4065,10 +4065,12 @@ Audio bitrate in kBit (default 224). Use the specified Windows audio format tag (e.g.\& atag=0x55). .TP .B bit_exact -Use only bit exact algorithms (except (i)dct). -This also suppresses the user_data header in MPEG-4 streams -(that section causes some players such as Apple's -Quicktime player to declare the stream corrupt). +Use only bit exact algorithms (except (i)dct). +Additionally bit_exact disables several optimizations and thus +should only be used for regression tests, which need binary +identical files even if the encoder version changes. +This also suppresses the user_data header in MPEG-4 streams. +Do not use this option unless you know exactly what you are doing. .TP .B vcodec= use the specified codec (default: mpeg4):