minor wording

[platform/upstream/flac.git] / man / flac.sgml

diff --git a/man/flac.sgml b/man/flac.sgml
index 36cff76..3e75f3b 100644 (file)
--- a/man/flac.sgml
+++ b/man/flac.sgml
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
          <term><option>-P</option> <replaceable>#</replaceable>, <option>--padding</option>=<replaceable>#</replaceable></term>
 
          <listitem>
-           <para>Tell the encoder to write a PADDING metadata block of the given length (in bytes) after the STREAMINFO block.  This is useful if you plan to tag the file later with an APPLICATION block; instead of having to rewrite the entire file later just to insert your block, you can write directly over the PADDING block.  Note that the total length of the PADDING block will be 4 bytes longer than the length given because of the 4 metadata block header bytes.  You can force no PADDING block at all to be written with --no-padding.  The encoder writes a PADDING block of 4096 bytes by default.</para>
+           <para>Tell the encoder to write a PADDING metadata block of the given length (in bytes) after the STREAMINFO block.  This is useful if you plan to tag the file later with an APPLICATION block; instead of having to rewrite the entire file later just to insert your block, you can write directly over the PADDING block.  Note that the total length of the PADDING block will be 4 bytes longer than the length given because of the 4 metadata block header bytes.  You can force no PADDING block at all to be written with --no-padding.  The encoder writes a PADDING block of 8192 bytes by default (or 65536 bytes if the input audio stream is more that 20 minutes long).</para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
 
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
          <term><option>-b</option> <replaceable>#</replaceable>, <option>--blocksize</option>=<replaceable>#</replaceable></term>
 
          <listitem>
-           <para>Specify the block size in samples.  The default is 1152 for -l 0, else 4608; must be one of 192, 576, 1152, 2304, 4608, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, or 32768 (unless --lax is used)</para>
+           <para>Specify the block size in samples.  Subset streams must use one of 192, 576, 1152, 2304, 4608, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 (and 8192 or 16384 if the sample rate is &gt;48kHz).</para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
 
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
          <term><option>-l</option> <replaceable>#</replaceable>, <option>--max-lpc-order</option>=<replaceable>#</replaceable></term>
 
          <listitem>
-           <para>Set the maximum LPC order; 0 means use only the fixed predictors</para>
+           <para>Specifies the maximum LPC order. This number must be &lt;= 32. For Subset streams, it must be &lt;=12 if the sample rate is &lt;=48kHz. If 0, the encoder will not attempt generic linear prediction, and use only fixed predictors. Using fixed predictors is faster but usually results in files being 5-10% larger.</para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>