[MPlayer-DOCS] main/TOOLS documentation?

[Diego Biurrun]

VMiklos writes:
> VMiklos wrote:
> > i hope tomorrow i'll have time to document the c codes and then do the 
> > recategorization
> 
> now c codes are included. the next step would be to do the 
> recategorization, and decreaseing tab space to 2.

Yes, looks good overall.

> categories would be: MPlayer, MEncoder, tech, (and misc, if needed)

Sounds good.

> 4.1 alaw-gen.c
>         Author:         Arpi
> 
>         Description:    It is here to solve some license issue (It is technical
>                         tool to use sox for alaw/ulaw table generation, which is
>                         used by MPlayer, but sox is not GPL.)

Huh?  sox is LGPL:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox

So this is bogus..

>         Note:           It is not useful anyway, never was.

Maybe it's time to remove it then.

> 4.2 asfinfo.c
>         Author:         Arpi
> 
>         Description:    A simple ASF header display program
> 
>         Usage:          './asfinfo <filename.asf>'
> 
>         Note:           Also see mplayer's -identify option.

MPlayer

>         Description:    A simple tool to fix chunk sizes in a RIFF AVI file

BTW, please put "." at the end of sentences.

>         Note:           It is used to simulate /proc/cpuinfo on non-linux

emulate, Linux

>         Description:    MPEG4-ES stream inspector, dump the startcodes of the
>                         stream.

.. dumps the stream startcodes.

>         Usage:          As argument requires absolute address of memory dump and
>                         its lenght (int hexadecimal form).

length

>                         As output - will write file which will named:

will be

>         Note:           Requires CVS JOCR/GOCR.

Is this still true?  Maybe add a reference to the upcoming version.

>                         You will have to change 'vobsub_id' value if you want an
>                         other subtitle than number 0.

You will have to change the 'vobsub_id' value if you want a
subtitle different from number 0.

>         Description:    Dump h263 frame headers from vivo files.

H.263

Diego