[MPlayer-DOCS] Suggestions for documentation improvements

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:47:24AM -0700, Axel Boldt wrote:
>
> * the README.txt in
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20060611.zip
> is mainly directed at Windows users and should therefore mention where
> to put the codecs on a standard Windows installation of mplayer.

Where do they go anyway?

> * The codec section 7.1 of the main documentation refers the user
> to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ for downloading
> codecs. This directory has no README, and it is unclear which file
> contains what. In particular, the differences between the win32codecs,
> windows-all and windows-essential packages is not explained anywhere
> as far as I can see.

The link now points to the download page, which has instructions.

> * STEP1 of http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README should mention where to
> get the binary codecs.

It does :)

> Also, the sentence "Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9
> exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary." is unclear; it
> should clearly say that WMV9 is supported by binary codecs only, while
> the other Windows Media formats have some native support.

WMV9 is supported natively now.  Anyway, I've updated that section.

> * The man page should explain the difference between "mplayer -loop 0
> file.mpg" and "mplayer file.mpg -loop 0", the latter being vastly more
> useful.

To be honest, I forget the difference myself.

> All this is of course meant in the friendly spirit of E.4.

Patches welcome for the rest of the issues you mentioned.

Diego

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