<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/23 Attila Kinali <span dir="ltr"><attila@kinali.ch></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Moin People,<br>
<br>
Those of you, who were at the ending party of the LinuxTag 2008<br>
know already about it, some of you might heard of it and some<br>
of you might wish you had it already: The Book of Wisdom!<br>
<br>
BoW is sub-project to FFmpeg and MPlayer to gather the<br>
vast knowledge we have on video coding, audio and video codecs,<br>
file formats and all the issues you face when trying to implement<br>
something.<br>
<br>
The goal is to write a book that should become the ultimate<br>
resource on video coding to teach and attract new developers.<br>
Why? Because there is no such book yet.<br>
<br>
There is a new mailinglist for it [1] and a subversion repository [2]<br>
where all MPlayer and FFmpeg developers have write access to.<br>
<br>
The repo has currently only a skeleton for the book. The most important<br>
file there is the README.authors, which was crafted by a crazy bunch<br>
of people[3] who left a ongoing party to write the book outline. It contains<br>
the basic idea behind BoW, who we want to target, who isn't in the target<br>
audience, conventions for writing and what we thought should be in this book.<br>
Ofcourse, all this is open to discussion.<br>
<br>
<br>
I would like to ask everyone who wants to help in the effort<br>
for this book (hopefully many of you) to join the mailinglist<br>
and make this book a great success.</blockquote><div>Can the book be downloaded?<br>
Regards <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<br>
Attila Kinali</blockquote><div>Franco <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<br>
PS: Special thanks goes to the Amarok Team, who gave us (unknowingly)<br>
the working title of the book. (At least i think it was them...<br>
there was a lot of beer involved....)<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/bow" target="_blank">https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/bow</a><br>
[2] svn://<a href="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/bow/trunk" target="_blank">svn.mplayerhq.hu/bow/trunk</a><br>
[3] Mans, Roberto and me<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
A strange game.<br>
The only winning move is not to play.<br>
-- Joshua, WarGames<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Franco Amato<br>
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