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Improve documentation about -bt option

Originally committed as revision 14397 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

Jason Garrett-Glaser authored on 2008/07/26 06:04:06
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 @item -vn
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 Disable video recording.
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 @item -bt @var{tolerance}
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-Set video bitrate tolerance (in bit/s).
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+Set video bitrate tolerance (in bits, default 4000k).
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+Has a minimum value of: (target_bitrate/target_framerate).
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+In 1-pass mode, bitrate tolerance specifies how far ratecontrol is
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+willing to deviate from the target average bitrate value. This is
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+not related to min/max bitrate. Lowering tolerance too much has
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+an adverse effect on quality.
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 @item -maxrate @var{bitrate}
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 Set max video bitrate (in bit/s).
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 Requires -bufsize to be set.