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document the change on -edlout's behavior

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according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other
uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you watch.
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<para>
The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. Once the EDL system has reached a
certain level of maturity, an XML-based file format will probably be implemented
(keeping backwards compatibility with previous EDL formats).
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<sect2 id="edl_using">
<title>Using an EDL file</title>
<para>

reaches the times given in the file.
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<para>
To create an EDL file to work from, use the <option>-edlout &lt;filename&gt;</option>
flag. During playback, when you want to mark the previous two seconds to skip over,
hit <keycap>i</keycap>. A corresponding entry will be written to the file for
that time. You can then go back and fine-tune the generated EDL file.
</para>
</sect2>

</sect1>

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according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other
uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you watch.
</para>

<para>
The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. Each line on the file dictates what
to do (skip/mute) and when to do it (using pts in seconds). 
</para>

<sect2 id="edl_using">
<title>Using an EDL file</title>
<para>

reaches the times given in the file.
</para>

<para>
To create an EDL file to work from, use the <option>-edlout &lt;filename&gt;</option>
flag. During playback, just hit <keycap>i</keycap> to mark the beginning and 
end of a skip block. A corresponding entry will be written to the file for
that time. You can then go back and fine-tune the generated EDL file as well as
change the default operation which is to skip the block described by each line.
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</sect2>

</sect1>