[MPlayer-users] wanna help make a newbies manual?

[Stribik András]

Hello

> Anyone interested in helping me build a newbies MPlayer guide? One with
> very simple explanations and lots of screen shots? I think this could
> really help a lot of new users come to grips with the program and get to
> use some of its basic functionality quickly.
I am interested. If you think its useful, I can write a small program 
for configuration, with kernel's `make menuconfig` like interface. It 
reads the possible options from the `configure --help` (this part is 
done), displays a nice menuconfig interface, and calls configure with 
the selected switches, then shows the results.

 > I have started one with some installation guides (for Windows, OSX and
 > Ubuntu) and a how-to for playing files. You can see here it:
 > http://en.flossmanuals.net/mplayer (there is a dutch translation here:
 > http://nl.flossmanuals.net/mplayer )
Your manual page only describes the installation process from deb 
package, which is trivial IMO. So I think you should add an 
"installation from source" chapter, or improve the installation chapter 
in the official documentation. (I dont know if that is possible.) I 
think mplayer has a lot more optional dependencies than those 15 
packages in the software requirements chapter.

Stribik András