[MPlayer-DOCS] grey vs. gray

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:38:32PM +0200, mail at kraymer.de wrote:
> 
> because of a user question in #mplayer IRC I noticed that wording of
> greyscale options is not consistent. In fact I didn't find lavc's option
> "gray" since I was using american spelling (thanks to Rathann for hinting
> to british spelling).

GrAy is American, grEy is British.

> Basically xvid uses "greyscale" while ffmpeg uses "gray". The man page is
> long enough and users looking for greyscale encoding will probably only
> find either xvid's or lavc's option. Assuming that american spelling is
> more popular, it's more likely that lavc will be overlooked.
> Although ffmpeg sources would have to be changed to make that consistent,
> I think it really would make sense.
> Opinions about that?

The change is not difficult to make.  I'd be inclined to go for the
American spelling, though, as it's more common and American spelling
makes more sense in a few places.

Diego