[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 11/12 v2] doc: Fix broken English in the common options description

Derek Buitenhuis derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 19:04:21 CEST 2013


Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>
---
 doc/avtools-common-opts.texi |   21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/avtools-common-opts.texi b/doc/avtools-common-opts.texi
index ffb5785..b8c53db 100644
--- a/doc/avtools-common-opts.texi
+++ b/doc/avtools-common-opts.texi
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept in input
-a string representing a number, which may contain one of the
-SI unit prefixes, for example 'K', 'M', 'G'.
-If 'i' is appended after the prefix, binary prefixes are used,
-which are based on powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000.
-The 'B' postfix multiplies the value by 8, and can be
-appended after a unit prefix or used alone. This allows using for
-example 'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as number postfix.
+All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept a string
+representing a number as input, which may be followed by one of the SI
+unit prefixes. For example: 'K', 'M', or 'G'.
+
+If 'i' is appended to the SI unit prefix, the complete prefix will be
+interpreted as a unit prefix for binary multiplies, which are based on
+powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. Appending 'B' to the SI unit
+prefix multiplies the value by 8. This allows using, for example:
+'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as number suffixes.
 
 Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the
 corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing
-with "no" the option name, for example using "-nofoo" in the
-command line will set to false the boolean option with name "foo".
+the option name with "no". For example using "-nofoo"
+will set the boolean option with name "foo" to false.
 
 @anchor{Stream specifiers}
 @section Stream specifiers
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1.7.10.4



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