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diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml
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+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml
@@ -61,24 +61,22 @@ is a lot of valuable information to be found there.
<para>
<application>MPlayer</application> is a movie player for Linux (runs on
-many other Unices, and <emphasis role="bold">non-x86</emphasis> CPUs, see
-<xref linkend="ports"/>).
-It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM,
+many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see <xref linkend="ports"/>).
+It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM,
NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by
many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch
-<emphasis role="bold">VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora</emphasis>,
-and <emphasis role="bold">MPEG-4 (DivX)</emphasis> movies too. Another big
+Video CD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora,
+and MPEG-4 (DivX) movies, too. Another big
feature of <application>MPlayer</application> is the wide range of
supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib,
fbdev, AAlib, libcaca, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all
-their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and
+their drivers) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and
Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them support software or hardware
scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
<application>MPlayer</application> supports displaying through some
hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the <link linkend="dvb">DVB</link> and
<link linkend="dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</link>. And what about the nice big
-antialiased shaded subtitles
-(<emphasis role="bold">14 supported types</emphasis>)
+antialiased shaded subtitles (14 supported types)
with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean
fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)?
</para>
@@ -98,19 +96,17 @@ video and audio manipulation.
<application>MEncoder</application> (<application>MPlayer</application>'s Movie
Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode
<application>MPlayer</application>-playable movies
-(<emphasis role="bold">AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</emphasis>)
+AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA
to other <application>MPlayer</application>-playable formats (see below).
-It can encode with various codecs, like
-<emphasis role="bold">MPEG-4 (DivX4)</emphasis>
+It can encode with various codecs, like MPEG-4 (DivX4)
(one or two passes), <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>,
-<emphasis role="bold">PCM/MP3/VBR MP3</emphasis>
-audio.
+PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 audio.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<title><application>MEncoder</application> features</title>
<listitem><para>
- Encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of
+ Encoding from the wide range of file formats and decoders of
<application>MPlayer</application>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -118,7 +114,7 @@ audio.
<link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Video encoding from <emphasis role="bold">V4L compatible TV tuners</emphasis>
+ Video encoding from V4L compatible TV tuners
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index
@@ -130,10 +126,7 @@ audio.
1, 2 or 3 pass encoding
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- <emphasis role="bold">VBR</emphasis> MP3 audio
- <important><para>
- VBR MP3 audio doesn't always play nicely on windows players!
- </para></important>
+ VBR MP3 audio
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
PCM audio
@@ -142,7 +135,7 @@ audio.
Stream copying
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with
+ Input A/V synchronizing (pts-based, can be disabled with
<option>-mc 0</option> option)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -151,10 +144,10 @@ audio.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Using our very powerful filter system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
- rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)
+ rotate, scale, RGB/YUV conversion)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Can encode DVD/VOBsub <emphasis role="bold">AND</emphasis> text subtitles
+ Can encode DVD/VOBsub and text subtitles
into the output file
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>