[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] man-en-update ao subopts (fwd)

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu May 20 22:43:01 CEST 2004


joy at pingfm.org writes:
> I updated man-page for subopts for alsa and oss.

Thanks, some comments below.

>  .B alsa1x\ 
>  ALSA 1.x audio output driver.
> +.br
> +Since ALSA Version 0.9x and Version 1.x are merged \-ao alsa9 or alsa1.x are not
> +valid -ao options anymore.
> +.br
> +For older MPlayer-Versions suboptions in \-ao alsa9 and \-ao alsa1.x are the same.

IMO we should document the suboptions nevertheless until you remove
both drivers.  Are they the same as for alsa?

>  .B alsa5\ \ 
>  ALSA 0.5 audio output driver.
> +.br
> +No Suboptions.

Just leave this out.  It's not necessary to say explicitly that there
are no suboptions.

> +.IPs "dsp\-device (like /dev/dsp)"
> +Sets the audio-output device.

It's not necessary to escape the "-" in dsp-device.

What's the default?  /dev/dsp?  This should be mentioned.

Diegon




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