[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add to FAQ usage of image formats (other than GIF)

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:49:27PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:46:20PM +0200, V?ctor Paesa wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I entered that as FAQ#1.3, because FAQ#1.2 was referring to JPEG
> >>usage. I felt that was the most logical position, instead of
> >>appending it.
> >>
> >>Patch attached.
> >
> >looks ok
> >assuming the heads of the ministry of english composition have no
> >objections
> 
> I suspect that I'm not part of that reference, but for the record, the
> only problems I see with the patch are two of what I think are called
> comma splices. As problems go, they are minor enough to not really
> bother me, and the fact that the patch wasn't readily quotable (because
> Mozilla Mail doesn't recognize ".patch" as being a text file) collides

IMO the problem is that the sender used application/octet-stream
instead of text/plain for the content-type. Not the file suffix. Of
course a good mailer (mutt) lets you change the content-type
temporarily for viewing/replying.

Rich