[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 06/12] doc: Grammar fixes for FFmpeg description
Derek Buitenhuis
derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 20:32:53 CET 2013
Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>
---
doc/ffmpeg.texi | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index f62425e..de5acfc 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -16,26 +16,26 @@ ffmpeg [@var{global_options}] @{[@var{input_file_options}] -i @file{input_file}@
@chapter Description
@c man begin DESCRIPTION
-ffmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from
+ at command{ffmpeg} is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from
a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample
rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.
-ffmpeg reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be regular
+ at command{ffmpeg} reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be regular
files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), specified by the
@code{-i} option, and writes to an arbitrary number of output "files", which are
specified by a plain output filename. Anything found on the command line which
cannot be interpreted as an option is considered to be an output filename.
-Each input or output file can in principle contain any number of streams of
-different types (video/audio/subtitle/attachment/data). Allowed number and/or
-types of streams can be limited by the container format. Selecting, which
-streams from which inputs go into output, is done either automatically or with
-the @code{-map} option (see the Stream selection chapter).
+Each input or output file can, in principle, contain any number of streams of
+different types (video/audio/subtitle/attachment/data). The allowed number and/or
+types of streams may be limited by the container format. Selecting which
+streams from which inputs will go into which output is either done automatically
+or with the @code{-map} option (see the Stream selection chapter).
To refer to input files in options, you must use their indices (0-based). E.g.
-the first input file is @code{0}, the second is @code{1} etc. Similarly, streams
+the first input file is @code{0}, the second is @code{1}, etc. Similarly, streams
within a file are referred to by their indices. E.g. @code{2:3} refers to the
-fourth stream in the third input file. See also the Stream specifiers chapter.
+fourth stream in the third input file. Also see the Stream specifiers chapter.
As a general rule, options are applied to the next specified
file. Therefore, order is important, and you can have the same
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ options apply ONLY to the next input or output file and are reset between files.
@itemize
@item
-To set the video bitrate of the output file to 64kbit/s:
+To set the video bitrate of the output file to 64 kbit/s:
@example
ffmpeg -i input.avi -b:v 64k -bufsize 64k output.avi
@end example
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1.7.10.4
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