[MPlayer-cvslog] r26897 - in trunk: AUTHORS DOCS/tech/MAINTAINERS DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt configure etc/codecs.conf libmpcodecs/vd_xvid4.c libmpcodecs/ve_xvid4.c

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:58:59AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 5/28/08, Paul Arthur <flowerysong00 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On 2008-05-27, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> diego wrote:
> >>
> >>> Log: cosmetics: XviD --> Xvid
> >>
> >> Did we hash this out at some point and conclude that that was the
> >> correct spelling? I have been of the impression that "XviD" is
> >> correct, for much the same reasons that "DivX" is correct.
> >
> > xvid.org seems to invariably capitalise it as 'Xvid'. Though I wasn't
> > able to track down an official announcement in my cursory search, it
> > appears that they changed it from 'XviD' sometime near the end of 2006.
>
> Xvid Solutions is formed by split of xvid developers, they inherited
> XviD codec, but it is not further developed by them. They are working
> on closed H.264 codec. When (and if) they release it, they can call it
> Xvid 2.0.
>
> 
> On a question in FreeNode #xvid 
> <iive> ... what is the correct name of xvid - Xvid or XviD ?
> <prunedtree> i'd say XviD, as it's DivX reversed
> <prunedtree> and it looks much better in a logo
> ...
>
> In the current cvs and the last release that was done after the change
> of the website, all strings inside (documentation, headers and source)
> refer to the codec as XviD.
>
> On that ground I see no reason why this change should have ever been done.
> I'm reverting it.

http://www.xvid.org/ disagrees, as does Wikipedia and and Google.

Not to mention that we have already settled on the Xvid spelling in most
of the documentation a long time ago:

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r20876 | kraymer | 2006-11-13 09:53:20 +0100 (Mon, 13 Nov 2006) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
   M /trunk/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml
   M /trunk/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
   M /trunk/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml
   M /trunk/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml

rename: XviD -> Xvid
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I'm glad to see you doing some useful work.  Restoring inconsistency was
badly needed.  Thanks a bundle.

Diego

P.S.: Teach your mailer to break lines properly.