[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] synch to new x264 revision

[Diego Biurrun]

Guillaume POIRIER writes:
> Le jeu 23/09/2004 à 15:38, Jeff Clagg a écrit :
> > 
> > First, I'm surprised by this. I figured this subject is for
> > DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt.
> 
> Yeah, that's what I figured also, but I see several problems with that
> way of documenting:
> 1) Most users aren't likely to read it since it's an unusual place to
> find informations. Plus, so many users don't read the documentation at
> all. That way, we can reply to a dub question "man mplayer".
> 2) A huge number of users use packaged versions of mplayer (deb, rpm,
> you name it), where I don't think DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt is
> available.
> 3) Apart from encoding-tips.txt, all the docs in DOCS/tech/ seem to be
> devs-oriented. Let's be consistent.
> 4) If those informations are available in the manage, there's maybe a
> greater chance that should there be mistakes in it, some users will tell
> us.

All of this is true and known.  Moving DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt to
the MEncoder section of the XML section is planned, but not
particularly high on my TODO-list.  Help appreciated ;-)

Diego