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authorRoman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org>2004-08-23 19:48:41 +0000
committerRoman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org>2004-08-23 19:48:41 +0000
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* adding Michael's explanation to the FAQ
Originally committed as revision 3411 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
ffmpeg development is now concentrated on the codec and format
handling. New developments broke ffserver, so don't expect it to work
-correctly. It is planned to fix it ASAP.
+correctly. If you have time and experience, please help us fix it.
@section I cannot read this file although this format seems to be suppored by ffmpeg.
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ The same system is used for the other image formats.
No. FFmpeg only supports open source codecs. Windows DLLs are not
portable, bloated and often slow.
+@section Why do I see a slight quality degradation with multithreaded MPEG* encoding ?
+
+For multithreaded MPEG* encoding, the encoded slices must be independent,
+otherwise thread n would practically have to wait for n-1 to finish, so its
+quite logic that there is a small reduction of quality, this is not a bug
+
@section How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?
Use @file{-} as filename.