* Spelling fixes here and there.

loader/registry.c

@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static void init_registry(void)
 #else
 	// regpathname is an external pointer
         //
-	// registry.c is holding it's own internal pointer
+	// registry.c is holding its own internal pointer
 	// localregpathname  - which is being allocate/deallocated
 
 	if (localregpathname == 0)

loader/win32.c

@@ -4271,7 +4271,7 @@ static void expsrand(int seed)
 
 #if 1
 
-// prefered compilation with  -O2 -ffast-math !
+// preferred compilation with  -O2 -ffast-math !
 
 static double explog10(double x)
 {

modules/audio_output/auhal.c

@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ static int AudioStreamChangeFormat( aout_instance_t *p_aout, AudioStreamID i_str
     }
 
     /* The AudioStreamSetProperty is not only asynchronious (requiring the locks)
-     * it is also not Atomic, in it's behaviour.
+     * it is also not atomic in its behaviour.
      * Therefore we check 5 times before we really give up.
      * FIXME: failing isn't actually implemented yet. */
     for( i = 0; i < 5; i++ )

modules/codec/cinepak.c

@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static int cinepak_decode_frame( cinepak_context_t *p_context,
         i_strip_id   = GET2BYTES( p_data );
         i_strip_size = GET2BYTES( p_data );
         i_strip_size = __MIN( i_strip_size, i_length );
-        /* FIXME I don't really understand how it's work; */
+        /* FIXME I don't really understand how it works; */
         i_strip_y1  = i_strip_y2 + GET2BYTES( p_data );
         i_strip_x1  = GET2BYTES( p_data );
         i_strip_y2  = i_strip_y2 + GET2BYTES( p_data );

modules/codec/dvbsub.c

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  *
  * FIXME:
  * DVB subtitles coded as strings of characters are not handled correctly.
- * The character codes in the string should actually be indexes refering to a
+ * The character codes in the string should actually be indexes referring to a
  * character table identified in the subtitle descriptor.
  *****************************************************************************/
 #include <vlc/vlc.h>

modules/demux/asf/libasf.h

@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ typedef struct
 /****************************************************************************
  * High level asf object
  ****************************************************************************/
-/* This is the first header find in a asf file
- * It's the only object that have subobject */
+/* This is the first header found in an asf file
+ * It's the only object that has subobjects */
 typedef struct
 {
     ASF_OBJECT_COMMON

modules/demux/live555.cpp

@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ describe:
     
     if( p_sdp == NULL )
     {
-        /* failure occured */
+        /* failure occurred */
         int i_code = 0;
         const char *psz_error = p_sys->env->getResultMsg();
                 

modules/gui/qt4/components/simple_preferences.cpp

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ SPrefsPanel::SPrefsPanel( intf_thread_t *_p_intf, QWidget *_parent,
         START_SPREFS_CAT( Subtitles );
 
             CONFIG_GENERIC( "subsdec-encoding", StringList, NULL, encoding );
-            CONFIG_GENERIC( "sub-language", String, NULL, preferedLanguage );
+            CONFIG_GENERIC( "sub-language", String, NULL, preferredLanguage );
             CONFIG_GENERIC( "freetype-font", String, NULL, font ); /* FIXME -> use file instead of string */
             CONFIG_GENERIC( "freetype-color", IntegerList, NULL, fontColor );
             CONFIG_GENERIC( "freetype-rel-fontsize", IntegerList, NULL,

modules/gui/qt4/ui/sprefs_audio.ui

@@ -98,12 +98,12 @@
    <item row="2" column="0" >
     <widget class="QLabel" name="label" >
      <property name="text" >
-      <string>Prefered audio language</string>
+      <string>Preferred audio language</string>
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
    <item row="2" column="1" >
-    <widget class="QComboBox" name="preferedAudioLanguage" />
+    <widget class="QComboBox" name="preferredAudioLanguage" />
    </item>
    <item row="3" column="0" >
     <widget class="QLabel" name="label_2" >

modules/gui/qt4/ui/sprefs_interface.ui

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
       <item row="1" column="0" colspan="2" >
        <widget class="QLabel" name="label_2" >
         <property name="text" >
-         <string>This is the new VLC default interface. It's dialogs give access to most VLC features.</string>
+         <string>This is the new VLC default interface. Its dialogs give access to most VLC features.</string>
         </property>
         <property name="wordWrap" >
          <bool>true</bool>

modules/gui/qt4/ui/sprefs_subtitles.ui

@@ -97,12 +97,12 @@
    <item row="0" column="0" >
     <widget class="QLabel" name="label" >
      <property name="text" >
-      <string>Subtitles prefered language</string>
+      <string>Subtitles preferred language</string>
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
    <item row="0" column="1" >
-    <widget class="QLineEdit" name="preferedLanguage" />
+    <widget class="QLineEdit" name="preferredLanguage" />
    </item>
   </layout>
  </widget>

modules/gui/wxwidgets/dialogs/playlist.cpp

@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ void Playlist::OnDragItemEnd( wxTreeEvent& event )
 
     if( !dest_tree_item.IsOk() ) return;
 
-    /* check that we're not trying to move a node into one of it's children */
+    /* check that we're not trying to move a node into one of its children */
     wxTreeItemId parent = dest_tree_item;
     while( parent != treectrl->GetRootItem() )
     {
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ bool PlaylistFileDropTarget::OnDropFiles( wxCoord x, wxCoord y,
         {
             /* This is a leaf. Append right after it
              * We thus need to find the parrent node and the position of the
-             * leaf in it's children list */
+             * leaf in its children list */
             wxTreeItemId parent = p->treectrl->GetItemParent( item );
             PlaylistItem *p_parent =
                 (PlaylistItem *)p->treectrl->GetItemData( parent );

modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c

@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ static int Mux( sout_mux_t *p_mux )
                         if( p_stream->i_stream_id == 0xa0 &&
                             p_data->i_pts <= 0 )
                         {
-                            /* XXX yes I know, it's awfull, but it's needed,
+                            /* XXX yes I know, it's awful, but it's needed,
                              * so don't remove it ... */
                             p_data->i_pts = p_data->i_dts;
                         }

src/audio_output/output.c

@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ aout_buffer_t * aout_OutputNextBuffer( aout_instance_t * p_aout,
         p_aout->output.fifo.pp_last = &p_aout->output.fifo.p_first;
 
 #if 0 /* This is bad because the audio output might just be trying to fill
-       * in it's internal buffers. And anyway, it's up to the audio output
+       * in its internal buffers. And anyway, it's up to the audio output
        * to deal with this kind of starvation. */
 
         /* Set date to 0, to allow the mixer to send a new buffer ASAP */

src/interface/interface.c

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static void Manager( intf_thread_t *p_intf );
  * You can give some additional options to be used for interface initialization
  *
  * \param p_this the calling vlc_object_t
- * \param psz_module a prefered interface module
+ * \param psz_module a preferred interface module
  * \param i_options number additional options
  * \param ppsz_options additional option strings
  * \return a pointer to the created interface thread, NULL on error

src/libvlc-common.c

@@ -1110,14 +1110,14 @@ static void Help( libvlc_int_t *p_this, char const *psz_help_name )
 static void Usage( libvlc_int_t *p_this, char const *psz_module_name )
 {
 #define FORMAT_STRING "  %s --%s%s%s%s%s%s%s "
-    /* short option ------'    |     | | | |  | |
-     * option name ------------'     | | | |  | |
-     * <bra -------------------------' | | |  | |
-     * option type or "" --------------' | |  | |
-     * ket> -----------------------------' |  | |
-     * padding spaces ---------------------'  | |
-     * comment -------------------------------' |
-     * comment suffix --------------------------'
+    /* short option ------'    | | | | | | |
+     * option name ------------' | | | | | |
+     * <bra ---------------------' | | | | |
+     * option type or "" ----------' | | | |
+     * ket> -------------------------' | | |
+     * padding spaces -----------------' | |
+     * comment --------------------------' |
+     * comment suffix ---------------------'
      *
      * The purpose of having bra and ket is that we might i18n them as well.
      */

src/misc/update.c

@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ void GetFilesList( update_t *p_update, vlc_bool_t b_force )
                     if( !strcmp( psz_eltname, "version" ) )
                     {
                         int i;
-                        /* look for a previous occurence of this release */
+                        /* look for a previous occurrence of this release */
                         for( i = 0; i < p_update->i_releases; i++ )
                         {
                             p_release = p_update->p_releases + i;

src/misc/variables.c

@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ void __var_OptionParse( vlc_object_t *p_obj, const char *psz_option )
     if( psz_value ) i_name_len = psz_value - psz_option;
     else i_name_len = strlen( psz_option );
 
-    /* It's too much of an hassle to remove the ':' when we parse
+    /* It's too much of a hassle to remove the ':' when we parse
      * the cmd line :) */
     if( i_name_len && *psz_option == ':' )
     {

src/playlist/item.c

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ void playlist_LockClear( playlist_t *p_playlist )
  * \param i_mode the mode used when adding
  * \param i_pos the position in the playlist where to add. If this is
  *        PLAYLIST_END the item will be added at the end of the playlist
- *        regardless of it's size
+ *        regardless of its size
  * \param b_playlist TRUE for playlist, FALSE for media library
  * \return The id of the playlist item
  */
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ int playlist_Add( playlist_t *p_playlist, const char *psz_uri,
  * \param i_mode the mode used when adding
  * \param i_pos the position in the playlist where to add. If this is
  *        PLAYLIST_END the item will be added at the end of the playlist
- *        regardless of it's size
+ *        regardless of its size
  * \param i_duration length of the item in milliseconds.
  * \param ppsz_options an array of options
  * \param i_options the number of options