[MPlayer-DOCS] grey vs. gray

[Jeff Clagg]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:42:21PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/12/06, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Though I agree it makes more sense to have the same spelling, you
> should keep in mind that it will "needlessly" break all existing
> mencoder front-ends.

Fix it in the docs and support "grey" spelling in ve_xvid*. Nothing
breaks, and searching the docs becomes easier.
> 
> Guillaume
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