[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1032,1.1033

[The Wanderer]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 7/15/05, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:

>>>  .B (no)hq_ac
>>> -Activates High Quality AC coefficient prediction for intra frames from
>>> +Activates High Quality AC coefficients prediction for intra frames from
>>>  neighbor blocks (default: on).
>> 
>> I know that I wasn't the one to suggest this change, because I
>> actually consider it a step downwards; the original sounds good to
>> me, and the new version doesn't. I'm not sure how to explain the
>> reasoning, if indeed there is any, but I believe that the
>> non-plural form is the correct one to use in this context.
> 
> The reason why I "pluralised" it is because there are several AC
> coefficients on a MB (if I understood correctly, all of the 
> coefficient of he MB are AC except the first one which is called DC).
> 
> What do you think?

The thing is, I would paraphrase "high-quality AC coefficient
prediction" as either "high-quality prediction of AC coefficients" or
"prediction of high-quality AC coefficients" (depending on context) -
the pluralization is implied by the phrasing, even though it isn't
present in the word. As I said, I'm not sure of the linguistic detail
behind it, since I haven't made an extensive studiy of the matter - but
I'm about as certain as I can reasonably be that the non-plural form is
the correct one.

>> Also, I can see why the choice was made (to make the abbreviation
>> more obvious), but I don't like the capitalization of "High
>> Quality" here; if it were left up to me, I'd probably choose to
>> leave it in lowercase.
> 
> I agree with that. If you agree with the "pluralization", I'll
> correct only the capitalization, if you do not agree, ahem, I guess
> it means it's not clear-cut, so maybe someone with great knowledge
> should help us out. :)

Well, we can hope...

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