[MPlayer-DOCS] r19751 - in trunk/DOCS: man/en/mplayer.1 xml/en/cd-dvd.xml xml/en/faq.xml

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 21:48:19 CEST 2006


Hi,

On 9/8/06, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> Supplementary and/or in addition to Diego's comments:
>
> gpoirier wrote:
>
> >  <qandaentry>
> >  <question><para>
> > +I can't watch any recent DVDs from Sony Pictures/BMG?
> > +</para></question>
>
> This isn't a question, it's a statement, so it shouldn't have a question
> mark. If you'd rather phrase it as a question, it could simply be "Why
> can't I watch", et cetera (in which case the following answer would have
> to be rephrased somewhat to include a "Because" or the like).

done.

> > +<answer><para>
> > +It's normal, you've ripped off and sold an intentionally defective disk.
>
> I'd prefer "This is normal" or the like; it would also be a good idea to
> split the sentence there, either with a semicolon or a period (or, in
> this instance, perhaps even an emdash).

I don't see how I can split this sentence further more. It's just one
line of less than 80 chars. That doesn't seem too much, is it?


> > +The only way to play these DVDs is to circumvent the bad blocs of the disk
> > +by using DVDnav instead of mpdvdkit2.
> > +You can do so by replacing dvd:// by dvdnav:// on the command line.
>
> I would say something like "compiling MPlayer with DVDnav support and
> then replacing", et cetera.

done.

Guillaume
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