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 <p>
-  This chapter provides a short primer on video files, formats and 
-  codecs – because it is often cause for confusion:
+  This chapter provides a short primer on video files, formats and
+  codecs &ndash; because it is often cause for confusion:
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  A video file is a <dfn>container</dfn>. It usually contains one 
-  <dfn>video track</dfn> and one or more <dfn>audio tracks</dfn>. 
-  How these tracks are stored in the file is defined by the 
-  <dfn>file format</dfn>. Common formats are 
+  A video file is a <dfn>container</dfn>. It usually contains one
+  <dfn>video track</dfn>, one or more <dfn>audio tracks</dfn>, and possibly <dfn>
+  subtitle</dfn> tracks, <dfn>chapters</dfn>&hellip;
+  The way these tracks are stored in the file is defined by the
+  <dfn>file format</dfn>. Common formats are
   avi, mov, ogg, mkv, mpeg, mpeg-ts, mp4, flv, or vob.
 </p>
 <p>
   Each of the tracks by itself is encoded using a <abbr
-  title="Coder-Decoder"><dfn>Codec</dfn></abbr>. Common video codecs 
+  title="Coder-Decoder"><dfn>Codec</dfn></abbr>. Common video codecs
   are h264, mpeg2, mpeg4, theora, mjpeg, wmv3. Common audio codecs are
   mp2, mp3, dts, aac, wav/pcm.
 </p>
 <p>
-  Not all codecs can be packed into a given format. For example the 
-  mpeg format is limited to mpeg2, mpeg4 and mp3 codecs (not entirely true). 
-  DVDs do have stringent limitations as well. The opposite would be .avi; 
-  pretty much every audio/video codec combination can be contained in an avi 
+  Not all codecs can be packed into a given format. For example the
+  mpeg format is limited to mpeg2, mpeg4 and mp3 codecs (not entirely true).
+  DVDs do have stringent limitations as well. The opposite would be .avi:
+  pretty much every audio/video codec combination can be contained in an avi
   file-format.
 </p>
 <p>
-  To make things worse, naming conventions for video codecs and formats are 
+  To make things worse, naming conventions for video codecs and formats are
   often identical (especially MPEG ones) which leads to confusion.
-  All in all it is a very wide and deep field. Suffice there are different 
+  All in all it is a very wide and deep field. Suffice there are different
   uses for different codecs and formats.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Ardour specific issues</h2>
 <p>
-  Ardour supports a wide variety of video file formats codecs. More 
-  specifically, Ardour itself actually does not support any video at all 
+  Ardour supports a wide variety of video file formats codecs. More
+  specifically, Ardour itself actually does not support any video at all
   but delegates handling of video files to <a
-  href="http://ffmpeg.org/">ffmpeg</a>, which supports over 350 different 
+  href="http://ffmpeg.org/">ffmpeg</a>, which supports over 350 different
   video codecs and more than 250 file formats.
 </p>
 <p>
-  When importing a video into Ardour, it will be <dfn>transcoded</dfn> 
-  (changed from one format and codec to another) to avi/mjpeg for internal 
-  use (this allows reliable seeking to frames at low CPU cost &mdash; the 
+  When importing a video into Ardour, it will be <dfn>transcoded</dfn>
+  (changed from one format and codec to another) to avi/mjpeg for internal
+  use (this allows reliable seeking to frames at low CPU cost&mdash;the
   file size will increase, but hard disks are large and fast).
 </p>
 <p>
-  The export dialog includes presets for common format and codec 
-  combinations (such as DVD, web-video,..). If in doubt use one of the 
-  presets.
+  The export dialog includes presets for common format and codec
+  combinations (such as DVD, web-video,..). If in doubt, one of the
+  presets should be used.
 </p>
 <p>
-  As last note: every time a video is transcoded, the quality can only get 
-  worse. Hence for the final mastering/<abbr 
-  title="Multiplexing Audio and Video">muxing</abbr> process, one should 
-  always to back and use the original source of the video.
+  As a last note: every time a video is transcoded, the quality can only get
+  worse. Hence for the final mastering/<abbr
+  title="Multiplexing Audio and Video">muxing</abbr> process, one should
+  always go back and use the original source of the video.
 </p>
-