[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en mencoder.xml,1.49,1.50

[The Wanderer]

Since I missed re-reviewing the modified version of the patch:

Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:

> +  Only fixed-fps content can be stored. This is particularly limiting
> +  if the original material you want to encode is mixed content, for
> +  example a mix of NTSC video and film material.

I pointed this out before, and I didn't hear anyone disagree with it -
unless I'm misremembering the standard, "FPS" should be capitalized.

> +  The Matroska is a free, open standard container format, aiming
> +  to offer a lot of advanced features, which older containers
> +  like AVI cannot handle.

The construction "The Matroska" is not valid AFAIK. You should probably
just drop the "The".

> +  For example, Matroska supports variable bitrate audio content
> +  (VBR), variable framerates (VFR), chapters, file attachments,
> +  error detection (EDC) and modern A/V Codecs like "advanced audio
> +  coding" (AAC), "Vorbis" or "MPEG-4 AVC" (H.264), next to nothing
> +  handled by AVI.

While I agree with the rest of the decapitalizations, I think that
"Advanced Audio Coding" should still be capitalized, because it's a
formal name whose original is capitalized.

Does EDC in fact stand for simply "error detection", or something like
"error detection codes"? If the latter (which VERA seems to support),
you might want to use the full phrase before the acronym.

> +  The tools required to create Matroska files are collectively called
> +  <application>mkvtoolnix</application>, and are available for most
> +  Unix platforms as well as <application>Windows</application>.
> +  Given that Matroska is an open standard, you may find other
> +  tools that suit you better, but since mkvtoolnix is the most
> +  common, and is supported by the Matroska team itself, we will
> +  only cover its usage.

Too much commage in this last sentence. I proposed one possible fix in
my earlier comments; did it get rejected, or missed?

I've also spent a few minutes trying unsuccessfully to explain why, the
current form is a problem, and in the process came up with an alternate
solution. Drop the first comma (after "standard") and replace "Given
that" with "Because", and you'll have fixed the problem at the expense
of a little verbal sophistication.

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       The Wanderer

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