Re: ???normal??? vs ???widescreen???

Paul <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.dvdauthor.user
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]>, on Sun Feb 21, 2010 [05:57:25 PM] said:
> When specifying the subpicture mode attribute for a <stream> directive, 
> the allowed values are ???normal???, ???widescreen???, ???letterbox??? and ???panscan???.
> 
> That ???normal??? really means ???4:3??? or ???narrowscreen???. I don???t like the use 
> of the word ???normal??? for this, particularly as widescreen TVs are 
> becoming commonplace now.
> 
> Any objections if I change this to ???narrowscreen????
> 
	Hi;

	I would object to *changing* it, if it breaks any old tools.
*Adding* the aliases 'narrowscreen', '3:4', and '16:9" should be easy
though.
	You dont even have to document the keywords you dont like, but
they should still work.

Paul
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