From bbc35f515f9f699067b6337003faebd02781acd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tripp Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:25:59 +0000 Subject: 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 --- doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi index bc7e53d2d1..0f62bdad71 100644 --- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi +++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi @@ -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} -- cgit v1.2.3