[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
diego at biurrun.de
Thu May 29 23:51:38 CEST 2008
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:45:38AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 5/29/08, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:21:13AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > 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:
> >> >
> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > 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
> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> > I'm glad to see you doing some useful work. Restoring inconsistency was
> >> > badly needed. Thanks a bundle.
> >>
> >> Oh, forgot to say: This is a clear violation of policy section II.9.
>
> Actually the revert is not technically a commit,
> as it doesn't introduce new code.
lol
> Moreover, I am still listed as maintainer of XviD code,
> and you committed your changes without following II.9.
You committed to 9 files of which you maintain 2 and I maintain 3.
Diego
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