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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:27:31PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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 ;-)

imo encoding-tips.txt is for developers to archive useful information
from the mailing lists for easy access, and to remove old info when it
becomes obsolete. in turn, this info should be used by docs
maintainers when trying to better document options, write encoding
tutorials, etc.

rich