[MEncoder-users] wiki (was: lavc doesn't work for me)

[Alexander Strasser]

Frederik Eaton wrote ( On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:54:15PM -0800 ):
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:56:03PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:53:30AM -0800, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> > > D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > no, it would make documentation horribly wrong and make it so none of
> > > > the developers ever write documentation. have you ever seen free
> > > > software with good documentation in wiki? no. ok.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Oh, ouch, it burns! We are trying really hard with the
> > > transcode wiki. Please don't damn the wiki model, it can
> > > be very good. There are quite a few FAQ-like docs in the
> > > mplayer/mencoder documentation that would benefit from
> > > wikification, IMHO.
> 
> And example code. I had a lot of questions reading the examples in the
> manual - why that option? What if I did it this other way? I think a
> wiki would help flesh things out out and get rid of the wrinkles.

Well, to sum it up: In the case of MPlayer there is a great probability
it will contain bad/stupid/wrong... content. The fact that no devel
would take the time to correct it comes into play here. 

> If you decide you want to have one, I've set up a mediawiki before for
> work (getting rid of the wikipedia references takes some effort but I
> think mediawiki is the best option).

You are free to make a wiki about MPlayer, but it won't be official in
any way --- at least that is my oppinion, i don't know about the oppinion
of all devels. *Maybe*, if you make one, we can link to it from the
projects page which is stating it to be a different unrelated project in
regard to the MPlayer documentation which comes with MPlayer.

  Alex (beastd)