[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/muxers: document mov faststart option.

Lou Logan lou at lrcd.com
Sun Oct 21 23:01:46 CEST 2012


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, at 05:23 AM, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> ---
>  doc/muxers.texi | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/muxers.texi b/doc/muxers.texi
> index 83c21db..34eed0f 100644
> --- a/doc/muxers.texi
> +++ b/doc/muxers.texi
> @@ -252,7 +252,8 @@ See also the @ref{framemd5} muxer.
>  The mov/mp4/ismv muxer supports fragmentation. Normally, a MOV/MP4
>  file has all the metadata about all packets stored in one location
>  (written at the end of the file, it can be moved to the start for
> -better playback using the @command{qt-faststart} tool). A fragmented
> +better playback by adding @var{faststart} to the @var{movflags}, or

Trivial nit: I'm late to the party. Unfamiliar users (or non-native
speakers) might equate "better" with "quality" instead of "less of a
wait before playback", but I'm failing at the moment to make a more
elegant phrase.


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