[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en encoding-guide.xml,1.8,1.9

[The Wanderer]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 8/15/05, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> (Gack. I thought I'd mailed this out hours ago! Here it is
>> anyway...)
>> 
>> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

>>> If I were to use "unit" here, I'd write smth such as: "You will
>>> get worse quality per bitrate unit", which sounds better to me.
>>> :)
>> 
>> It doesn't to me, however; I don't think I've ever come across that
>> phrasing before, even in "bad" English much less in "good"
>> English. The phrasing "foo per unit bar" is very standard IME, it's
>> just more formal than may be warranted.
> 
> I personally prefer that one rather than the one you suggest later. I
> does feel odd to me (but hey, that's why I'm glad that you're part
> of the doc team) as it's shorter.

I don't really think the new form is good either, but it is still better
than the earlier form. If someone (possibly Diego once he gets back from
this apparent hiatus) comes up with an alternative phrasing I'll be glad
to see it, but for the time being I'll just go with this one.

>> A slightly less objectionable alternate phrasing, from my end,
>> would be "per unit of bitrate", but that also has problems although
>> I don't currently know how to fix them any more than I know how to
>> fix the main problems of the previously suggested fix.
>> 
>> I'll hold off on committing the rest until this is addressed, or
>> until this evening if I don't get any replies by then.
> 
> Commit whenever you want now, along with the fixes that might have to
> be done to my afternoon commit. :)

As it happens, I don't see anything that actually needs fixing there.
There is one niggly bit - it isn't clear in the example exactly *why*
the audio format tag will be incorrect (simply because the new container
is not the same as the old?) - but it isn't major and I don't know the
technical side of this well enough to be sure of how to rephrase it
while still being accurate.

Commit goes through momentarily.

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