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authortripp <eliared@yahoo.com>2008-07-21 05:25:59 +0000
committerDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2008-07-21 05:25:59 +0000
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Clarify -minrate/-maxrate description in the documentation.
patch by tripp, eliared yahoo com Originally committed as revision 14320 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -388,8 +388,14 @@ Disable video recording.
Set video bitrate tolerance (in bit/s).
@item -maxrate @var{bitrate}
Set max video bitrate (in bit/s).
+Requires -bufsize to be set.
@item -minrate @var{bitrate}
Set min video bitrate (in bit/s).
+Most useful in setting up a CBR encode:
+@example
+ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -b 4000k -minrate 4000k -maxrate 4000k -bufsize 1835k out.m2v
+@end example
+It is of little use elsewise.
@item -bufsize @var{size}
Set video buffer verifier buffer size (in bits).
@item -vcodec @var{codec}