[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] new section: muxing

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:16:18PM +0000, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
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> -  <screen>mplayer source_file.vob -aid 129 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3</screen>
> +  <screen>mplayer <replaceable>source_file.vob</replaceable> -aid 129 -dumpaudio -dumpfile <replaceable>sound.ac3</replaceable></screen>
> -  <screen>mplayer source_file.vob -ao pcm:file=destination_sound.wav -vc dummy -aid 1 -vo null</screen>
> +  <screen>mplayer <replaceable>source_file.vob</replaceable> -ao pcm:file=<replaceable>destination_sound.wav</replaceable> -vc dummy -aid 1 -vo null</screen>
> -  <screen>oggenc -q1 destination_sound.wav</screen>
> +  <screen>oggenc -q1 <replaceable>destination_sound.wav</replaceable></screen>

These are unrelated to the new muxing section, commit right away.

> +  Now that you have you encoded video, you will more than likely want

your

> +  to mux it with one or more audio tracks into a movie container, such
> +  as AVI, OGM, Matroska, or NUT.

Leave out the comma after Matroska.

> +  Although it's the most widely-supported container format after MPEG-1,

it is

Long forms are preferred, same below.

> +  This translates into a little over 5 MB per hour, or 1-2.5%
> +  overhead for a 700 MB movie. This may not seem like much, but it could
> +  mean the difference between being able to use 700 kbit/sec video or
> +  714 kbit/sec, and every bit of quality counts.

> +  The matroska project is a free, open standard container format,

Matroska

> +  older formats like AVI can't handle, on an extensible basis.

I prefer container to format.

> +  A/V Codecs like "Advanced Audio Coding" (AAC), "Ogg Vorbis" or

Vorbis, not Ogg Vorbis, they are not the same and we should clarify the
difference by never mentioning them in one breath.

> +  "MPEG-4 AVC" (H.264), next to nothing handled by AVI.

"next to nothing" feels a bit clumsy here and I'm also not entirely sure
what it is supposed to mean..

> +  The tools required to merge Matroska tools are called

s/tools/files/ ?

> +  Unix plateforms as well as <application>Windows</application>.

platforms

> +  graphical front-end shipped with mkvtoolnix, <application>MMG</application>

frontend

Diego