# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1125618813 0 # Node ID 5ceeeb85804c42ed6799e97a87fdcf0336bef30c # Parent 9d772123c27d80e4880b35f95c91dbf10cf2ea4e Avoid short forms. diff -r 9d772123c27d -r 5ceeeb85804c DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml Thu Sep 01 22:09:27 2005 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml Thu Sep 01 23:53:33 2005 +0000 @@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ - Because the video in a PAL DVD has not been altered, you needn't worry + Because the video in a PAL DVD has not been altered, you need not worry much about framerate. The source is 25 fps, and your rip will be 25 fps. However, if you are ripping an NTSC DVD movie, you may need to apply inverse telecine. @@ -2458,7 +2458,7 @@ After running , we follow the process detailed in the section How to deal with telecine and interlacing in NTSC DVDs and discover that it is - 24000/1001 fps progressive video, which means that we needn't use an inverse + 24000/1001 fps progressive video, which means that we need not use an inverse telecine filter, such as or . @@ -3080,8 +3080,8 @@ Still, there are very good reasons for using two pass encoding. For - one thing, single pass ratecontrol isn't psychic, and it often makes - unreasonable choices because it can't see the big picture. For example, + one thing, single pass ratecontrol is not psychic, and it often makes + unreasonable choices because it cannot see the big picture. For example, suppose you have a two minute long video consisting of two distinct halves. The first half is a very high-motion scene lasting 60 seconds which, in isolation, requires about 2500kbps in order to look decent. @@ -3093,7 +3093,7 @@ heavily overquantized, causing it to look unacceptably and unreasonably blocky. The second segment will be heavily underquantized; it may look perfect, but the bitrate cost of that perfection will be completely - unreasonable. What's even harder to avoid is the problem at the + unreasonable. What is even harder to avoid is the problem at the transition between the two scenes. The first seconds of the low motion half will be hugely over-quantized, because the ratecontrol is still expecting the kind of bitrate requirements it met in the first half @@ -3155,9 +3155,9 @@ perfect, but would also use many times more bitrate than they would need in order to look merely excellent. At the other extreme, achieves nearly constant quantization parameter - (QP). Constant QP doesn't look bad, but most people think it's more + (QP). Constant QP does not look bad, but most people think it is more reasonable to shave some bitrate off of the extremely expensive scenes - (where the loss of quality isn't as noticeable) and reallocate it to + (where the loss of quality is not as noticeable) and reallocate it to the scenes that are easier to encode at excellent quality. is set to 0.6 by default, which may be slightly low for many peoples' taste (0.7-0.8 are also commonly used).