[FFmpeg-devel] [Fwd: Re: [FFmpeg-user] HDV 1 720p]

[Roman V. Shaposhnik]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 01:08 +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2009/2/19 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:57:13AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:14:21PM -0800, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 00:11 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:46:50PM -0800, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote:
> >> > > > > Do we have a TWiki for this kind of recipes to be posted?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > http://wiki.multimedia.cx/
> >> > >
> >> > > Mmmm. Ok. Although I wouldn't expect anybody to realize that connection.
> >> > >
> >> > > But here's a practical question -- that very recipie that I forwarded,
> >> > > which section of wiki.multimedia.cx should it be added to? Please give
> >> > > me the URL.
> >> >
> >> > Is there one already?  I don't know offhand...
> >>
> >> Not that I know of.
> >>
> >> > Otherwise, it's a wiki, go create one...
> >>
> >> Hum... I meant the other way around: a link on ffmpeg.org pointing to
> >> wiki.multimedia.cx.
> >
> > I meant that Roman should go and create a wiki page with the suggestion
> > he received.  And yes, I think we should link to the multimedia wiki
> > from ffmpeg.org.
> 
> Agreed! But, I think it should be clear that the section of the wiki
> being browsed is FFmpeg-related. I suppose wikis don't really work
> like that though. That's what I was saying about ffmpeg.org needing
> its own wiki or an FFmpeg article on wiki.multimedia.cx being a front
> page of what would be considered the FFmpeg wiki.
> 
> I can't just point to the article about FFmpeg on wiki.multimedia.cx
> because the article's audience is somewhat conflicting. Someone should
> look up the FFmpeg article on wiki.multimedia.cx, then visit
> ffmpeg.org. People looking at ffmpeg.org and looking for a wiki
> shouldn't be looking for the wiki to find out what FFmpeg is because
> ffmpeg.org should tell them that. I think any wiki information linked
> from ffmpeg.org should be supplementary documentation that it either
> isn't reasonable to put in our core docs or is not yet finalised or
> something.

These are my thoughts exactly. I have nothing against contributing
to wiki.multimedia.cx, but the flow for my usecase just doesn't
seem to be natural.

Thanks,
Roman.