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.

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi>]

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:

    v 1: lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more
         concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" syn: vaporize,
          vaporise
    2: cause to change into a vapor; "The chemist evaporated the
       water" syn: vaporise
    3: change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our
       eyes" syn: vaporise

At a guess, does vamps make MPEG2 streams smaller?