From 47d944d2be6ab5a70f69f619ef10179ed3fd32b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabrice Bellard Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:16:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc update Originally committed as revision 1233 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- doc/README.beos | 23 ---------- doc/faq.html | 29 ++++++++----- doc/faq.texi | 4 ++ doc/ffmpeg-doc.html | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi | 38 ++++++++++++++++- 5 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/README.beos diff --git a/doc/README.beos b/doc/README.beos deleted file mode 100644 index b127e72233..0000000000 --- a/doc/README.beos +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -Compilation on BeOS: --------------------- - -François Revol - revol@free.fr - July 2002 - -The configure script should guess the configuration itself. -Networking support is currently not finished. -errno issues fixed by Andrew Bachmann. - -Old stuff: - -François Revol - revol@free.fr - April 2002 - -The configure script should guess the configuration itself, -however I still didn't tested building on net_server version of BeOS. - -ffserver is broken (needs poll() implementation). - -There is still issues with errno codes, which are negative in BeOs, and -that ffmpeg negates when returning. This ends up turning errors into -valid results, then crashes. -(To be fixed) - diff --git a/doc/faq.html b/doc/faq.html index 6af28f01df..402f329458 100644 --- a/doc/faq.html +++ b/doc/faq.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - + FFmpeg FAQ @@ -17,12 +17,13 @@
  • 1.3 I get audio/video synchro problems when grabbing.
  • 1.4 How do I encode jpegs to another format ?
  • 1.5 FFmpeg does not support codec XXX. Can you include a Windows DLL loader to support it ? +
  • 1.6 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ? -
  • 2. Development +
  • 2. Development

    @@ -100,11 +101,19 @@ portable, bloated and often slow. -

    2. Development

    +

    1.6 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?

    + +

    +Use `-' as filename. + + + + +

    2. Development

    -

    2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?

    +

    2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?

    No. Only GCC is supported. GCC is ported on most systems available and I @@ -114,7 +123,7 @@ related to the compiler. -

    2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?

    +

    2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?

    No. Use mingw-gcc available at http://www.mingw.org/ to @@ -124,7 +133,7 @@ windows compilers. -

    2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?

    +

    2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?

    No. These tools are too blowted and they complicate the build. Moreover, @@ -133,7 +142,7 @@ terms of portability.

    -This document was generated on 4 November 2002 using +This document was generated on 19 November 2002 using texi2html 1.56k. diff --git a/doc/faq.texi b/doc/faq.texi index 1adc4341f8..351ba42ff2 100644 --- a/doc/faq.texi +++ b/doc/faq.texi @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ The same system is used for the other image formats. No. FFmpeg only supports open source codecs. Windows DLLs are not portable, bloated and often slow. +@section How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ? + +Use @file{-} as filename. + @chapter Development @section Can you support my C compiler XXX ? diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.html b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.html index 262a8314a9..e7aebfc49e 100644 --- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.html +++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - + FFmpeg Documentation @@ -32,13 +32,21 @@

  • 5.2 Video Codecs
  • 5.3 Audio Codecs -
  • 6. Developpers Guide +
  • 6. Platform Specific information +
  • 7. Developpers Guide +

    @@ -438,8 +446,8 @@ dump video coding statistics to file

    3.6 Protocols

    -The output file can be "-" to output to a pipe. This is only possible -with mpeg1 and h263 formats. +The filename can be `-' to read from the standard input or to write +to the standard output.

    @@ -685,11 +693,71 @@ performances on systems without hardware floating point support). -

    6. Developpers Guide

    +

    6. Platform Specific information

    + + + +

    6.1 Linux

    + +

    +ffmpeg should be compiled with at least GCC 2.95.3. GCC 3.2 is the +prefered compiler now for ffmpeg. All futur optimizations will depend on +features only found in GCC 3.2. + + + + +

    6.2 BSD

    + + + +

    6.3 Windows

    + + + +

    6.4 MacOS X

    + + + +

    6.5 BeOS

    + +

    +The configure script should guess the configuration itself. +Networking support is currently not finished. +errno issues fixed by Andrew Bachmann. + + +

    +Old stuff: + + +

    +François Revol - revol at free dot fr - April 2002 + + +

    +The configure script should guess the configuration itself, +however I still didn't tested building on net_server version of BeOS. + + +

    +ffserver is broken (needs poll() implementation). + + +

    +There is still issues with errno codes, which are negative in BeOs, and +that ffmpeg negates when returning. This ends up turning errors into +valid results, then crashes. +(To be fixed) + + + + +

    7. Developpers Guide

    -

    6.1 API

    +

    7.1 API