[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.851,1.852

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Wed Jan 12 23:39:07 CET 2005


Diego Biurrun wrote:

> The Wanderer writes:
> 
>> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
>> 
>>> -.B \-aspect <ratio>
>>> +.B \-aspect <ratio> (also see \-zoom)
>>>  Override movie aspect ratio.
>>>  It is autodetected for MPEG files, but it cannot be done for most AVI files.
>> 
>> Unclear antecedent for the second "it" - does this mean that aspect
>> overriding cannot be done for most AVI files, or that aspect 
>> autodetection cannot be done for most AVI files?
> 
> I think it's the latter.  Can somebody confirm this?
> 
> So I suggest:
> 
>   Aspect ratio is autodetected for MPEG files, but it cannot be
>   autodetected for most AVI files.

If confirmed, this would be fine, although I'd note that in this
phrasing the word "it" is unnecessary and (arguably) superfluous.

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