[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS sound.html,1.65,1.66

[Diego Biurrun]

Gabucino writes:
 > Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > Worse?  What's bad about links?
 > I mean the "links" browser, sorry :)
 > 
 > 
 > > And what's bad about the table?
 > I don't know, I just "feel" it harder to read. Maybe because the driver names
 > (OSS, ALSA, etc) aren't at the beginning of each line.

Are you sure you aren't using lynx?  The table looks perfect here with
w3, w3m and links.

 > > Now you can actually compare
 > What for? :)

Buying a new sound card?

 > > and see at a glance what is present and what is missing.
 > Actually it's harder to do that, because you have to go to the beginning
 > of the table to find out which driver belongs to which column. It the old one
 > you had it right at the beginning of the line.

Oh, come on, it's not that hard to memorize the order of 5 table
columns, not if you are able to use MPlayer anyway ;-)

 > > I have, however, thought about removing the table completely.
 > No.
 > 
 > 
 > > We did drop a similar table from the FAQ after all.
 > Yes, table about video cards is much much harder to maintain, while one
 > doesn't have to touch sound cards table at all. Sound drivers/cards don't
 > change as frequently as video cards.
 > 
 > 
 > > Is this out of date?
 > Not at all.
 > 
 > 
 > > I'm not sure it is worth maintaining.
 > _It's doesn't have to be maintained_! :)))
 > 
 > 
 > > There are Linux hardware sites for this stuff.
 > I'm sure they don't cover PC speaker and GUS.

I'm still not entirely convinced but if you wish to keep it, so be it.

 > > against reversing
 > Ok, then I won't.

Issue settled then.

Diego