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author | Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de> | 2011-07-08 15:33:17 +0200 |
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committer | Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de> | 2011-07-12 23:42:20 +0200 |
commit | 2cb6dec61c8e6676105de628ba20a5b3d162976e (patch) | |
tree | 83075ae2227f233ccea56bc1a046768a601a7cfd | |
parent | 028216b2c2d81f7fe918163c74b0a59cd327f2f7 (diff) | |
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doc: Improve references to external URLs.
Sometimes it makes sense to replace a raw URL with some informative text
that links to the URL instead of using the raw URL itself in the text.
Also transform some mailing list references into links.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/developer.texi | 36 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/faq.texi | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/ffmpeg.texi | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/general.texi | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/protocols.texi | 2 |
5 files changed, 39 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/doc/developer.texi b/doc/developer.texi index 597ce95..45a4f44 100644 --- a/doc/developer.texi +++ b/doc/developer.texi @@ -31,14 +31,16 @@ only the public api is used. You can use Libav in your commercial program, but you must abide to the license, LGPL or GPL depending on the specific features used, please refer -to @url{http://libav.org/legal.html} for a quick checklist and to -@url{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.GPLv2}, -@url{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.GPLv3}, -@url{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LGPLv2.1}, -@url{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LGPLv3} for the -exact text of the licenses. +to @uref{http://libav.org/legal.html, our legal page} for a quick checklist and to +the following links for the exact text of each license: +@uref{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.GPLv2, GPL version 2}, +@uref{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.GPLv3, GPL version 3}, +@uref{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LGPLv2.1, LGPL version 2.1}, +@uref{http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LGPLv3, LGPL version 3}. Any modification to the source code can be suggested for inclusion. -The best way to proceed is to send your patches to the Libav mailing list. +The best way to proceed is to send your patches to the +@uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel} +mailing list. @anchor{Coding Rules} @section Coding Rules @@ -177,7 +179,10 @@ should also be avoided if they don't make the code easier to understand. When applying patches that have been discussed (at length) on the mailing list, reference the thread in the log message. @item - Subscribe to the libav-devel and libav-commits mailing list. + Subscribe to the + @uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel} and + @uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-commits, libav-commits} + mailing lists. Bugs and possible improvements or general questions regarding commits are discussed on libav-devel. We expect you to react if problems with your code are uncovered. @@ -241,8 +246,9 @@ it does not cause unexpected problems. Patches should be posted as base64 encoded attachments (or any other encoding which ensures that the patch will not be trashed during -transmission) to the libav-devel mailing list, see -@url{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel} +transmission) to the +@uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel} +mailing list. It also helps quite a bit if you tell us what the patch does (for example 'replaces lrint by lrintf'), and why (for example '*BSD isn't C99 compliant @@ -314,9 +320,9 @@ send a reminder by email. Your patch should eventually be dealt with. @item Is the patch against latest Libav git master branch? @item - Are you subscribed to libav-devel? - (@url{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel} - the list is subscribers) + Are you subscribed to the + @uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel} + mailing list? (Only list subscribers are allowed to post.) @item Have you checked that the changes are minimal, so that the same cannot be achieved with a smaller patch and/or simpler final code? @@ -370,7 +376,9 @@ send a reminder by email. Your patch should eventually be dealt with. @section Patch review process -All patches posted to libav-devel will be reviewed, unless they contain a +All patches posted to the +@uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel} +mailing list will be reviewed, unless they contain a clear note that the patch is not for the git master branch. Reviews and comments will be posted as replies to the patch on the mailing list. The patch submitter then has to take care of every comment, diff --git a/doc/faq.texi b/doc/faq.texi index 3d7a275..42a135c 100644 --- a/doc/faq.texi +++ b/doc/faq.texi @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ help out creating them. Nowhere. We do not support old Libav versions in any way, we simply lack the time, motivation and manpower to do so. If you have a problem with an old version of Libav, upgrade to the latest git snapshot. If you -still experience the problem, then you can report it according to the -guidelines in @url{http://libav.org/bugreports.html}. +still experience the problem, then you can report it according to our +@uref{http://libav.org/bugreports.html, bug reporting guidelines}. @section Why doesn't Libav support feature [xyz]? @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ Likely reasons @itemize @item We are busy and haven't had time yet to read your report or investigate the issue. -@item You didn't follow @url{http://libav.org/bugreports.html}. +@item You did not follow our + @uref{http://libav.org/bugreports.html, bug reporting guidelines}. @item You didn't use git master. @item You reported a segmentation fault without gdb output. @item You describe a problem but not how to reproduce it. @@ -123,8 +124,9 @@ problem and an NP-hard problem... @section ffmpeg does not work; what is wrong? -Try a @code{make distclean} in the ffmpeg source directory before the build. If this does not help see -(@url{http://libav.org/bugreports.html}). +Try a @code{make distclean} in the ffmpeg source directory before the build. +If this does not help see our +@uref{http://libav.org/bugreports.html, bug reporting guidelines}. @section How do I encode single pictures into movies? @@ -285,7 +287,8 @@ Just create an "input.avs" text file with this single line ... ffmpeg -i input.avs @end example -For ANY other help on Avisynth, please visit @url{http://www.avisynth.org/}. +For ANY other help on Avisynth, please visit the +@uref{http://www.avisynth.org/, Avisynth homepage}. @section How can I join video files? @@ -413,7 +416,7 @@ No. These tools are too bloated and they complicate the build. Libav is already organized in a highly modular manner and does not need to be rewritten in a formal object language. Further, many of the developers favor straight C; it works for them. For more arguments on this matter, -read "Programming Religion" at (@url{http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s15}). +read @uref{http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s15, "Programming Religion"}. @section I do not like the LGPL, can I contribute code under the GPL instead? diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi index 5246b18..517bb0c 100644 --- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi +++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi @@ -882,8 +882,8 @@ ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /tmp/out.mpg @end example Note that you must activate the right video source and channel before -launching ffmpeg with any TV viewer such as xawtv -(@url{http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/}) by Gerd Knorr. You also +launching ffmpeg with any TV viewer such as +@uref{http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/, xawtv} by Gerd Knorr. You also have to set the audio recording levels correctly with a standard mixer. diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index c97a757..ace464f 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ noticeable when running make for a second time (for example in @code{make install}). @item In order to compile FFplay, you must have the MinGW development library -of SDL. Get it from @url{http://www.libsdl.org}. +of @uref{http://www.libsdl.org/, SDL}. Edit the @file{bin/sdl-config} script so that it points to the correct prefix where SDL was installed. Verify that @file{sdl-config} can be launched from the MSYS command line. @@ -1008,8 +1008,7 @@ Then configure Libav with the following options: (you can change the cross-prefix according to the prefix chosen for the MinGW tools). -Then you can easily test Libav with Wine -(@url{http://www.winehq.com/}). +Then you can easily test Libav with @uref{http://www.winehq.com/, Wine}. @subsection Compilation under Cygwin @@ -1048,8 +1047,8 @@ If you want to build Libav with additional libraries, download Cygwin libogg-devel, libvorbis-devel @end example -These library packages are only available from Cygwin Ports -(@url{http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/}) : +These library packages are only available from +@uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/, Cygwin Ports}: @example yasm, libSDL-devel, libdirac-devel, libfaac-devel, libgsm-devel, diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi index 18749ef..5990631 100644 --- a/doc/protocols.texi +++ b/doc/protocols.texi @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ data transferred over RDT). The muxer can be used to send a stream using RTSP ANNOUNCE to a server supporting it (currently Darwin Streaming Server and Mischa Spiegelmock's -RTSP server, @url{http://github.com/revmischa/rtsp-server}). +@uref{http://github.com/revmischa/rtsp-server, RTSP server}). The required syntax for a RTSP url is: @example |