[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] reorganize mencoder.xml

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:30:20PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Here's a patch that reorganize the file mencoder.xml as I think it's
> not easy to find your way in it. I added at the end of this mail how
> the index would look like if you apply that patch.

Excellent idea!  I had this very thought the last time I looked at
mencoder.xml.  This reminds me that I wanted to break up chapter 2 some
day, it's far too long.

> I'm still not entirely satisfied with the way it's organized as the
> sections 7.1 to 7.6 are very short when the sections 7.7 to 7.12 are
> quite long.
> Maybe it could be a good idea to group the sections 7.1 to 7.6 into a
> 'basic usage' section. What do you think

Doesn't sound bad.

Some comments:

>     7.8. Encoding with the libavcodec codec family
>     7.9. Encoding with the x264 codec
>     7.10. Encoding with the XviD codec

I think you should put x264 after XviD since XviD and lavc are more
alike.

>     7.7. Making a high quality MPEG-4 ("DivX") rip of a DVD movie
>     7.12. How to deal with telecine and interlacing within NTSC DVDs

Shouldn't these two sections be closer together?  7.12 seems to belong
in the DVD ripping section.

Diego