[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] xvid zones patch doc (was [MPlayer-dev-eng] xvid zones patch)

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Jun 2 00:44:42 CEST 2005


On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> 
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > (conversation move to the DOCS ML)
> > On 6/1/05, Doom9 Feedback Hotline <feedback123 at doom9.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Attached is the diff and the documentation for the patch.
> > 
> > Here's the patch for the man page. I think the examples should either
> > go in the XviD section of the xml doc when I'll find the time to write
> > it.
> 
>   Please leave at least one example in the man page. Trying to be _so_
> reference like might be an easy temptation, but in the end it pisses
> of the people wanting to use the option. IMHO one of the Advantages of
> MPlayer man page is that it has examples in it.
> 
>   Diego, what is your opinion on the matter?

IMO it's hard to have too many examples and easy to have too few.

Tricky stuff is often easily explained with a good example or two that
cover the corner cases.

Diego




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