doc/codecs: update skip_alpha documentation

Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>

diff --git a/doc/codecs.texi b/doc/codecs.texi
index 74dd775e27be3491850f00f44bd9527c9fe97aaa..e79e462146725e0c68daf0299209a3d881204d15 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/codecs.texi
+++ b/doc/codecs.texi
@@ -1076,7 +1076,9 @@ Interlaced video, bottom coded first, top displayed first
 @end table
 
 @item skip_alpha @var{integer} (@emph{decoding,video})
-causes alpha plane not to be decoded, like "gray" which skips chroma.
+Set to 1 to disable processing alpha (transparency). This works like the
+@samp{gray} flag in the @option{flags} option which skips chroma information
+instead of alpha. Default is 0.
 @end table
 
 @c man end CODEC OPTIONS