[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.914,1.915

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 07:02:32PM +0200, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> 
> On 4/16/05, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Longer and better descriptions, yes.  Many things are very terse and
> > thus hard to understand, especially the lavc section.
> 
> Ok, I'll have a look at that as time goes... But I must say the lavc
> section has improved so much in the past month that I can't right now
> think of any particular option that need improvement....

Hmm, to my untrained eye, they're all still terse and confusing.

> >  The DivX section
> > is incomplete, but updating it is probably not worth it.  Maybe we
> > should drop DivX support altogether.
> 
> I won't touch it. I don't use it, and divx.com doesn't ship any linux
> version of its codec AFAIK.

It's not directly advertised, but still there.  I found it through
Google:

http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/

> I'm in favor of dropping it, but I guess as long as it's supposed to
> work, why bother?

Because we have (much) better free software alternatives?

> BTW, this answer took a loooonnng time to come... did you send it
> through sourceforge.net mail system? :o)

No, the problem is that I am sitting on top of a huge email backlog.

Diego