[MPlayer-users] OT(?): Matrox g400 tv-out references

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:42:58PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> 

Hi Attila,

> Ok, sorry, my fault.

Please don't appologize.  My goal was not to get an appology from you
(and I feel bad that that is what you thought -- please accept my
appology now) but maybe just some understanding from the developers of
the "common user"'s POV.

Some of the developers here are so quick to yell "RTFM" at people when
they ask something and I think sometimes even though they say it, what
is being asked is actually not in TFM but in the heads of the
developers on it's way to TFM.

You know, probably quite a few people here do RTFM (and then there
are those that don't of course), but Mplayer is under such heavy
development on a daily basis, and so is TFM (which is a good thing!)
that it is changing daily.

Something that is in TFM today might not have been there yesterday or
even the day before or last week (when the user last read them).  One
would have to read all of docs every day to keep up with what is being
added to them.

The fact that the docs are in HTML format _only_ (HTML is nice but
regular text is actually _useful_) does not help.  Trying to do a "cvs
diff -u -D <last_time_I_looked>" to look for what has changed since
the last time one looked gives almost meaninless garbage with all the
HTML tags and crap in there.  HTML is also difficult to search using
tools like grep and vim and the like.

If it were easier to read the docs and track them maybe there would be
less people not reading (or at least searching) TFM before asking
their questions.

> I should RTFM again :-/

Or just offer up a simple answer when one can be offered.  Or even be
a little more granular than just saying "RTFM".  How about suggesting
which of the documents the answer is in and maybe if you know, which
section to look in.

b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell