* adding Michael's explanation to the FAQ

Originally committed as revision 3411 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/doc/faq.texi b/doc/faq.texi
index cf196d9..21c8500 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/faq.texi
+++ b/doc/faq.texi
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 ffmpeg development is now concentrated on the codec and format
 handling. New developments broke ffserver, so don't expect it to work
-correctly. It is planned to fix it ASAP.
+correctly. If you have time and experience, please help us fix it.
 
 @section I cannot read this file although this format seems to be suppored by ffmpeg.
 
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ The same system is used for the other image formats.
 No. FFmpeg only supports open source codecs. Windows DLLs are not
 portable, bloated and often slow.
 
+@section Why do I see a slight quality degradation with multithreaded MPEG* encoding ?
+
+For multithreaded MPEG* encoding, the encoded slices must be independent,
+otherwise thread n would practically have to wait for n-1 to finish, so its
+quite logic that there is a small reduction of quality, this is not a bug
+
 @section How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?
 
 Use @file{-} as filename.