[BoW] Announcing The Book of Wisdom

[Franco Amato]

2008/9/23 Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch>

> Moin People,
>
> Those of you, who were at the ending party of the LinuxTag 2008
> know already about it, some of you might heard of it and some
> of you might wish you had it already: The Book of Wisdom!
>
> BoW is sub-project to FFmpeg and MPlayer to gather the
> vast knowledge we have on video coding, audio and video codecs,
> file formats and all the issues you face when trying to implement
> something.
>
> The goal is to write a book that should become the ultimate
> resource on video coding to teach and attract new developers.
> Why? Because there is no such book yet.
>
> There is a new mailinglist for it [1] and a subversion repository [2]
> where all MPlayer and FFmpeg developers have write access to.
>
> The repo has currently only a skeleton for the book. The most important
> file there is the README.authors, which was crafted by a crazy bunch
> of people[3] who left a ongoing party to write the book outline. It
> contains
> the basic idea behind BoW, who we want to target, who isn't in the target
> audience, conventions for writing and what we thought should be in this
> book.
> Ofcourse, all this is open to discussion.
>
>
> I would like to ask everyone who wants to help in the effort
> for this book (hopefully many of you) to join the mailinglist
> and make this book a great success.

Can the book be downloaded?
Regards

>
>
>                        Attila Kinali

Franco

>
>
> PS: Special thanks goes to the Amarok Team, who gave us (unknowingly)
> the working title of the book. (At least i think it was them...
> there was a lot of beer involved....)
>
> [1] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/bow
> [2] svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/bow/trunk
> [3] Mans, Roberto and me
> --
> A strange game.
> The only winning move is not to play.
>                        -- Joshua, WarGames
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Franco Amato
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