From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 6 6:19:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6807237B400; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12050; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:19:51 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id GAA12617; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206061319.GAA12617@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20020605192632.C39690@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> (message from Nik Clayton on Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:26:32 +0100) Subject: Re: man refs, deCSS disclaimer, merging with sound chapter Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Nope. The entity refs work irrespective of whether or not the port >is installed. So use them :-) I find this very hard to believe, but I will do as you say and await a miracle. :) >I'd say leave it as a footnote. But currently it is an incomplete footnote ('SOME SORT OF CSS DISCLAIMER HERE). I'll try to make something official-sounding and if someone wants it changed, they can PR it. >A chapter on multimedia? How about a complete top level section, with >chapters for video, audio, DVD playback, CD playback, and so on? Or are >some of those not likely to generate a full chapters worth of content? DVD playback is not much different than video playback. The same set of tools have knobs on them for both, and those knobs exist or not depending on compile options. On the other hand, a separate section on CD playback is a nice idea. Currently the handbook does not talk about 'cdcontrol' which (if I recall right) is now part of the base system. From the handbook alone one might guess that the only way to play an audio CD is to mp3 encode it and then listen to the mp3's. Also, in the "CD playback" chapter (which we might want to call "Audio CDs") we might want to include instructions for burning an audio cd with cdrecord, burncd and cdrdao. Yes, it is true, that if one reads the handbook and then looks at `man burncd` or `man cdrecord` one will be able to make an audio CD (assuming one knows to use audio media to burn to), but we can make more explicit instructions on how to do this in such a chapter. I'll try to rework the sound chapter into a multimedia one by monday, but the 'audio cd' portion of it may wait until I have time to focus on it. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message