[MPlayer-users] Documentation and dumb questions

Gabucino gabucino at mplayer.dev.hu
Fri Nov 30 12:18:51 CET 2001


It's the Question that drives us, Dariusz Pietrzak :
> > I'd like to convert it to SGML, but its programs are fscking complicated,
> > VERY hard to install (there is a howto about its _installation_), so
> khehehe,
> hehe
> he he he
> sorry...couldn't resist.
Ok, have your time ;)


> > p.s.: recommended doc reading is from "line 1" to "line last" .
> This is supposed to be movie player.
> And you can't seriously expect people to read the manuals ...
Standard answer : This movie player is for people who read manuals.


> Have your read carefully 'man ls' before you first used 'ls' ?
> I haven't.
Believe it or not, but when I found 'man', I ran it on all the commands
I was about to execute. :)
And :

$ ls -l /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        65318 Oct 29 12:26 /bin/ls
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/mplayer
-rws--s---    1 root     root      1449220 Nov 26 19:39 /usr/local/bin/mplayer

You don't have to read the manual for a water squirt gun, but you really should
when handling a thermonuclear warhead. :)


> And, mplayer's gui looks too good. It should be ugly like aviplay's.
;)

-- 
Gabucino

when? where?
nowhere. never. (arpi)
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