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.

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

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? :-)

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