[MEncoder-users] Mencoder finishes early on DVD to Divx encoding

[Pete Davis]

I agree with you regarding following the list. The problem that arises there
is that in that case, the same information tends to get repeated over and
over again as new people come to the list.

And I can certainly understand the issue of resources to write the
documentation. A project this size I'm sure could always use more resources.

One thing that might be a good idea and wouldn't be terribly time intensive,
would be to put together a collection of scripts on the web site that
perform various functions and act as examples. Instead of the authors having
to do the work themselves, people on this list could simply contribute
whatever scripts they've written. Someone could go through, decide which
ones are good examples, maybe make minor edits to fix up ones that are
almost good enough, and then make them available either on the web site or
in the documentation, or both.

I think what's largely lacking in the documentation and what really helps
people like me, who are new to mencoder out, is to see samples. Examples:

A script to turn a DVD movie into an AVI
A script to turn a DVD TV Show into multiple AVIs
A script to convert an existing AVI to a specific audio and video codec.
A script to re-encode just audio
A script to re-encode just video

Etc...

A dozen or two of these, with just a short paragraph describing what the
script does, could demonstrate a pretty wide range of things that can be
done and provide a good source for people to cut and paste their own.

Otherwise, people like me end up googling and finding out of date samples.

Anyway, just an idea. But again, the developers on the project could take
advantage of the people on this list as a source and save themselves some
work.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: mencoder-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mencoder-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Martin Collins
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 2:24 PM
To: mencoder-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MEncoder-users] Mencoder finishes early on DVD to Divx
encoding

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:54:38 -0500
"Pete Davis" <pete at petedavis.net> wrote:

> All I'm saying is if there's stuff that people SHOULDN'T be doing:
> Command that shouldn't be used or new commands that should be used
> instead, this stuff should be clearly listed in a very obvious place
> in the documentation because otherwise there's no way for the users
> to know what's unsupported, what's problematic, what's deprecated,
> etc.

A reasonable hope I suppose, the problem being finding someone willing
to take responsibility for doing that. My view is that obsolete
features should be removed or at least give a warning when running
mplayer. The counter view would be that that would break existing
scripts and provoke more complaints.
On the other hand, this list exists and if you followed it you would
over time pick up all the information you seek.

Martin

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