# HG changeset patch # User gpoirier # Date 1168852330 0 # Node ID 17e8429c3a57390f4dca237e35a7b79860f4c5c1 # Parent 88ab6170fb69a8b1ca9807df9a24e92f0702b1c0 fixes suggested by Diego diff -r 88ab6170fb69 -r 17e8429c3a57 DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml Mon Jan 15 07:23:28 2007 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml Mon Jan 15 09:12:10 2007 +0000 @@ -4121,18 +4121,18 @@ You want any computer illiterate to be able to watch your encode on - any major platform (Windows, Mac OSX, Unices …). + any major platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unices …). QuickTime is able to take advantage of more - hardware and software acceleration features of Mac OSX than + hardware and software acceleration features of Mac OS X than platform-independent players like MPlayer or VLC. That means that your encodes have a chance to be played smoothly by older G4-powered machines. - QuickTime 7 support the next-generation codec H.264, + QuickTime 7 supports the next-generation codec H.264, which yields significantly better picture quality than previous codec generations (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 …). @@ -4144,7 +4144,7 @@ QuickTime 7 supports H.264 video and AAC audio, - but it does not support them muxed in AVI container format. + but it does not support them muxed in the AVI container format. However, you can use MEncoder to encode the video and audio, and then use an external program such as mp4creator (part of the @@ -4191,7 +4191,7 @@ Cropping Suppose you want to rip your freshly bought copy of "The Chronicles of - Narnia" Your DVD is region 1, + Narnia". Your DVD is region 1, which means it is NTSC. The example below would still apply to PAL, except you would omit and use slightly different and dimensions. @@ -4224,7 +4224,7 @@ with a sample aspect ratio other than 1, so you will need to upscale (which wastes a lot of disk space) or downscale (which loses some details of the source) the video to square pixels. - Either way you do it, this is highly inefficient, but simply can not + Either way you do it, this is highly inefficient, but simply cannot be avoided if you want your video to be playable by QuickTime 7. MEncoder can apply the appropriate upscaling @@ -4263,7 +4263,7 @@ Bitrate - As always, the selection of bitrate is a matter the technical properties + As always, the selection of bitrate is a matter of the technical properties of the source, as explained here, as well as a matter of taste.