[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] XviD: divx5bvop description update + closed_gop

[Diego Biurrun]

The Wanderer writes:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, 07 November 2004 at 00:03, The Wanderer wrote:
> > 
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Guillaume POIRIER writes:
> >> 
> >>>> +In practical, most decoders (both software and hardware) are able to deal
> >>> 
> >>> in practise
> >> 
> >> That is the "British" spelling; the American spelling is
> >> "practice".
> > 
> > My "Cambridge International Dictionary of English" says exactly the
> > opposite. We're talking about the noun, not the verb (in which case
> > you'd be right).
> 
> I've never heard of an American form which did not use the spelling
> "practice" - verb and noun alike. Certainly I have always spelled the
> noun with the C, and have come across it spelled with an S only in a
> British context. I would, I think, be rather surprised if your ordinary
> speaker/writer/reader of the American language spelled the two forms
> differently...

This is also what my OXFORD ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN DICTIONARY says and
dict.leo.org appears to agree:

http://dict.leo.org/?search=practice&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard&sectHdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en
http://dict.leo.org/?search=practise&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard&sectHdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en

Diego