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| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml | 14 |
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diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml index de51a2dbca..a77f1833ae 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml @@ -290,15 +290,15 @@ </para> <para> - The complexity (and thus the number of bits) required to compress the - frames of a movie can vary greatly from one scene to another. + The complexity of the frames of a movie, and thus the number of bits + required to compress them, can vary greatly from one scene to another. Modern video encoders can adjust to these needs as they go and vary the bitrate. - However, in simple modes such CBR, they cannot exceed the requested - average bitrate for long stretches of time, because they do not know - the bitrate needs of future scenes. - Wiser modes, such as multipass encode can take into account the - statistics from previous passes, which fixes the problem mentioned + In simple modes such as CBR, however, the encoders do not know the + bitrate needs of future scenes and so cannot exceed the requested + average bitrate for long stretches of time. + More advanced modes, such as multipass encode, can take into account + the statistics from previous passes; this fixes the problem mentioned above. </para> |