[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] XviD documentation reaching almost completeness

[The Wanderer]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Le lun 06/09/2004 à 16:14, The Wanderer a écrit :
> 
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:

>>>> +High values make RC compensate very hard the overflow, this can have a
>>> 
>>> High values make RC compensate the overflow very hard
>> 
>> Isn't that "compensate for"?
> 
> I don't think so, I prefer what Diego suggests.

But - how is "compensate the overflow" good, or even valid, English? I
don't even know what it would mean; "to compensate X" means roughly "to
(pay back/reimburse) X for some hardship", which makes absolutely no
sense in this context. I don't know what the code in question does, but
I do not see any way to make the phrase as given make any sense with
much of *anything*. On the other hand, "to compensate for X" means
roughly "to add an offset so that X has no net effect", and I can easily
see how that could make sense in this context.

(Also, what does RC stand for? Rate control? In that case I'd suggest
"the rate control code" or similar, or at the very least "the RC". I'm
not completely positive there isn't also a problem with using "make"
instead of "makes", but every time I look at it anything else just seems
worse, so that one can probably be left alone.)

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