[MPlayer-users] Re: [Obscure] MPlayer/MEncoder features?

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:00:48 +0000 (UTC)
Ashok Thirumurthi <athirumurthi at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Aber, danke, ich meine.  It's good to know that it's largely my inability to 
> make sense of the documentation.

It's rather your inability to put the differnt pieces together
to form something bigger.

 
> However to make up the gap, I'll need to know what to look for in the 
> documentation.  For instance, it's obvious that a movie player doesn't play 
> stills.  However, it could convert stills to movies and I'd never know and how 
> would you go to sleep at night?

Sure i would ;)

> Let's take one point as an example:
[...]
> I found the answer in this list.  What should I search for in the docs to 
> answer such a question?  The docs contain no reference to the terms that I 
> used.  The FAQ didn't address such technical points.

The problem here is, that MPlayer can do a lot of things, but
each of it is just a small piece of what you want to do.
You have to put these pieces together to form something bigger.
Yes, therefore you have to know what kind of options are
available.

And yes, the documentation lacks here a lot, but that's mostly
because there are endless posibilities to combine MPlayers
functions and we already have problems just to document all
the possible options correctly and in a way that is even
for non-specialists understandable.

So, if you have suggestions on how to improve the doc
and would like to write some of it, please join
the mplayer-docs mailinglist and give us a hand.

> > wer soviel schoggi isst, kann sowieso nicht dumm sein 
> 
> What does schoggi mean?  Never mind, it's probably in a dictionary that 
> I didn't search.  One can clearly learn how to use a language from a 
> dictionary.

I doubt that you'll find this word in a dictionary.
It's swiss german for chocolate.

			Attila Kinali

-- 
wer soviel schoggi isst, kann sowieso nicht dumm sein ;-)
		-- Sandra