On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Chris Lord <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:05 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: >> >> The WPotD for today is "Video encoding" >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding - an article which, it seems to me, >> is in dire need of reduction. From my own experience, the page should be >> an instruction manual on installing tablet-encode and its dependencies, >> and that's it. > > Have to vehemently disagree with this, I've referred to this page for > the manual conversion instructions plenty of times, as it tells me how > to use tools that I already have on my system and are useful for > non-tablet cases too... Should wiki.maemo.org /really/ be a handy reference guide to other pieces of software for non-tablet use cases? Admittedly, I'm probably biased as Dave name-checked my software. IMNSHO, I'd say detail on the tablet-specific encoders: tablet-encode, Nokia's ITVC, Media Converter and the other one (n800vc?) and links to non-tablet specific encoders which either output tablet-compatible out-of-the-box or have profiles for them. > Maybe it should be split into simple/advanced sections perhaps, but a > lot of that information is useful. How to use ffmpeg/transcode/vlc/mencoder in general is best elsewhere, IMHO. However, a detailed page describing the key issues and requirements of tablet video is a good idea. Just not on this page. Such a page should probably have a section per OS version saying how the limitations moved forward with each one. Anyway, this should be held on the talk page, rather than on the -dev mailing list. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxx | http://www.bleb.org/ _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
