[schnaader]

Yeah, the name was better for the initial versions of Precomp that basically only did the decompression part (like using "-cn" now) and prepared the data before further compressing it with other tools. It also has the downside of being a common term (abbrevation of precomposition) in image/video editing.

Also, for other stream types like JPG and MP3, even "-cn" directly compresses the data without being able to see the intermediate decompressed representation, so in these cases Precomp (re)compresses.

But well, it's just a name and I decided to stick with it, changing it several times would've lead to confusion, too.