[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/encoders: partially rewrite and reformat libx264 docs

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2013-07-21 08:30:42 -0700, Timothy Gu encoded:
> On Jul 21, 2013 4:00 AM, "Stefano Sabatini" <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > -The FFmpeg wrapper provides a mapping for most of them using global
> options
> > > -that match those of the encoders and provides private options for the
> unique
> > > -encoder options. Additionally an expert override is provided to
> directly pass
> > > -a list of key=value tuples as accepted by x264_param_parse.
> > > +Many libx264 encoder options are mapped to FFmpeg global codec
> > > +options, while unique encoder options are provided through private
> >
> > > +options. Additionally the @option{x264opts} private options allows to
> >
> > the @option{x264opts} and @option{x264-params} private options allow ...
> 
> May I ask why there are two similar options? Because of the fork?

FFmpeg added x264opts, later Libav added x264-params, with a different
syntax, which was then merged into FFmpeg. I tend to prefer
x264-params because of its support for escaping.
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