John Mark Walker writes:
I am the Acquisitions Editor for No Starch Press. MPlayer is an interesting project, and I've been using the software for at least 3 years now. I am trying to figure out if now would be a good time to develop a book on MPlayer. Do you have any idea how many downloads there are, on average, per month?
Here are some statistics for the year 2003: http://mplayerhq.hu/wwwstats/
Assuming that the time is right for a book, do you know of anyone that would like to write one?
Judging whether the time is right for a book on MPlayer is difficult, but the present does not look like a bad time for a book on MPlayer to me. I might be interested in writing that book and I believe some of the other documentation writers will be interested as well. People, speak up :-) A few more details on how you handle book publishing would be most welcome, like what you expect in which timeframe, size of the book, how you handle copyrights, which license the book will be under, remuneration, etc. Regards Diego Biurrun
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:01:36PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
I might be interested in writing that book and I believe some of the other documentation writers will be interested as well. People, speak up :-)
Could do something. Although I don't know if I know MPlayer enough ;) Just finished exams, year starts, so I have some time ;) Torinthiel -- Waclaw "Torinthiel" Schiller GG#: 542916, 3073512 torinthiel(at)megapolis(dot)pl gpg: B06901F1 fpr: FAA3 559F CAE9 34DE CDC8 7346 2B6E 39F2 B069 01F1 "No classmates may be used during this examination"
On Friday 10 of September 2004 15:49, Torinthiel wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:01:36PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
I might be interested in writing that book and I believe some of the other documentation writers will be interested as well. People, speak up :-)
Could do something. Although I don't know if I know MPlayer enough ;) Just finished exams, year starts, so I have some time ;)
I also could do something, if I'm needed I will find some time.... (I hope but it's my first year on studies) -- Maciek "paszczi" Paszta .::. paszczi(at)go2.pl .::. JID:macp(at)chrome.pl gg: 2810043 .::. Linux User #304533 .::. BLUG Member #0247 fingerprint: A484 C4D8 9CC7 2DA3 2F92 E68A 9056 D5CC F22E 4C89 PGP:pgp.mit.edu .::. MPlayerPL Team : mplayerpl.emdej.com
Hi, Le ven 10/09/2004 à 15:01, Diego Biurrun a écrit :
John Mark Walker writes:
I am the Acquisitions Editor for No Starch Press. MPlayer is an interesting project, and I've been using the software for at least 3 years now. I am trying to figure out if now would be a good time to develop a book on MPlayer.
Maybe that's obvious, but this announcement doesn't tell us on which angle what he plans this book to be written... Would that be a book like "Understanding Linux Kernel" or "Linux Device Drivers"? One is more focused on telling "how it works" whereas the other is more "how you may fit your piece of code in", you know what I mean? Regards, Guillaume -- L'Homme animé par l'esprit scientifique désire sans doute savoir, mais c'est aussitôt pour mieux interroger. -+- Gaston Bachelard -+-
On Friday 10 September 2004 15:01, Diego Biurrun wrote:
John Mark Walker writes:
I am the Acquisitions Editor for No Starch Press. MPlayer is an interesting project, and I've been using the software for at least 3 years now. I am trying to figure out if now would be a good time to develop a book on MPlayer.
MPlayer has become a very popular project indeed so it might be time for a book. The question I have (and: Guillaume asked it too, somehow) is what that book would/should be about.. what kind of book? Telling the story about mplayer (and I think it really has one) could only be a part. Documentation as such is (at least in english) available for public as manpage and online as html. I think there must be some more that reader could be interested in, telling something they don't already know. Intersting might be some non-standard usages, things like a howto, where knowledge could be abstracted from documentation but isn't directly clear as such. For example, MEncoder could be an important part of that. As thinking of the license.. Using Linux, I'm fan of open-source of course. I think, the knowledge that we are about to gather for something like this book should be free available. Hm, did the topic 'writing a book' also mean making money with it? The only reason for that should be to support the MPlayer Project itself, but I don't know how much we (and esp. the developers) depend on it.. Do we? Generally, I'd say: Yes people, letz write that book! :-) But we should make clear first what we are talking about. Also, I'm volunteering to contribute as soon as things become clearer (and not before I managed to sync the german manpage ;) ) Sebastian PS: This thread shouldn't die just in the beginning. Let's discuss what efforts and benefits it could have and lets collect ideas what a book about MPlayer could be about!
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:36:05 +0200 Sebastian Krämer <mplayer@skraemer.de> wrote:
Generally, I'd say: Yes people, letz write that book! :-) But we should make clear first what we are talking about. Also, I'm volunteering to contribute as soon as things become clearer (and not before I managed to sync the german manpage ;) )
Actualy i already started one long ago :) https://svn.projectdream.org/repos/attila/mplayer-book/trunk/ (though the webserver seems to be down atm) It was planned as a book showing how mplayer g2 works internaly and explaining what's important around video coding. Unfortunately i didnt had the time to continue it, maybe i'll restart in a few weeks. I also got contacted by someone else about writing a book, though dont know anything more. Attila Kinali -- egp ist vergleichbar mit einem ikea bausatz fuer flugzeugtraeger -- reeler in +kaosu
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