[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Better modularization and extension of docs - 2

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:55:24PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> relevant thread:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/108669
> 
> I find the monolithic FFmpeg pages more and more clumsy, e.g. when I
> want to look for information related to a filter. In that case a:
> man ffmpeg-filters
> 
> would be much better, and would avoid redundancy in the ff* tool
> pages.
> 

Yes, I agree with that.

> Possible sections would be:
> 
> tools: ffmpeg/ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver
> protocols
> muxers
> demuxers
> indevs
> outdevs
> decoders
> encoders
> bitstream-filters/bsfs
> filters
> 
> It may made sense to merge muxers/demuxers => formats,
> indevs/outdevs => devices, decoders/encoders => codecs.
> 

No need to oversplit everything; so yes I think it makes more sense to
merge muxers and demuxers (and protocols?) into formats, decoders and
encoders into codecs, and indevs and outdevs into devices.

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-- 
Clément B.
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