[MPlayer-DOCS] manpage and HTML docs - FFmpeg MPEG-4 vs. DivX

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 24 November 2004 at 01:13, The Wanderer wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
[...]
> >This is true only for CVS snapshots. If you're using CVS, you should
> >know how to (or at least how to find out how to) build HTML docs from
> >XML.
> 
> Acknowledged. I do, in fact, know how to do that, but I do not do so on
> a routine basis, and that usually means that the documentation I have
> handy is out of date - and that, as I indicated, means I'm less likely
> to actually use it. The question is one of ready accessibility. (The
> problem would be less present if the HTML docs were automatically
> updated on make, if the XML docs had changed - but that might introduce
> unnecessary delays in compilation, and not everybody cares that much
> about the *ML docs anyway.)

All of this doesn't really matter if the user has Internet connection.
Current HTML docs are always available on MPHQ.

R.

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