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-(The prior example included "baseXX_default_*.h" includes, these are not recommended anymore and may eventually get deprecated.)
+(The prior example included "baseXX_default_*.h" includes, these are not recommended anymore and may eventually be deprecated.)
 
 Currently supported codec variants are: