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Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.



On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:57 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:09:18AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > ti, 2005-07-26 kello 21:36 +0200, Moratti Claudio kirjoitti:
> > >   Description     : Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams 
> > > by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing 
> > > the embedded elementary video stream.
> > 
> > This short description is a bit long and it also leaves it unclear to me
> > what the program actually does. The verb evaporate means, according the
> > WordNet dictionary:
> > [...] 
> > At a guess, does vamps make MPEG2 streams smaller?
> 
> Perhaps a confusion of "evaporate" with "condense"?  (Maybe the
> thermodynamic equivalent of an "off by 1" error? :-)

"off by 1" or "inverse"?  Anyway... tolerance for non-native English
speakers.

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