[MPlayer-DOCS] XviD encoding guide

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Jun 24 16:47:08 CEST 2005


On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:23:54PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:18:07PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 
> >>You should always leave it on as its impact on quality is very
> >>sensible.
> >
> >I don't understand the word sensible here.
> 
> I do - it's roughly a matter of, "its impact on quality is such that it
> makes sense to use this option". The usage isn't the most common, but
> it's certainly well within valid norms.
> 
> The fact that someone of reasonable intelligence and vocabulary doesn't
> understand it means that it might need to be changed anyway, however; I
> didn't suggest any changes in my previous round of comments not only
> because I wasn't sure it needed to be changed but because I couldn't
> think of any good alternatives. Any ideas?

I agree.  It's probably confusing to a lot of people.

How about "positive"?

Diego




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