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Originally committed as revision 1233 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
author: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org> 2002-11-19 19:16:26 +0000
committer: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org> 2002-11-19 19:16:26 +0000
commit: 47d944d2be6ab5a70f69f619ef10179ed3fd32b1 (patch)
tree: 6c60c12649eef61acd6e239be2351c4414d82b55 /doc
parent: b242baa411976134d950d8106aa86a6e2a7eb3c9 (diff)
5 files changed, 143 insertions, 51 deletions
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 @@
 <HTML>
 <HEAD>
-<!-- Created by texi2html 1.56k from faq.texi on 4 November 2002 -->
+<!-- Created by texi2html 1.56k from faq.texi on 19 November 2002 -->
 
 <TITLE>FFmpeg FAQ</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
@@ -17,12 +17,13 @@
 <LI><A NAME="TOC4" HREF="faq.html#SEC4">1.3 I get audio/video synchro problems when grabbing.</A>
 <LI><A NAME="TOC5" HREF="faq.html#SEC5">1.4 How do I encode jpegs to another format ?</A>
 <LI><A NAME="TOC6" HREF="faq.html#SEC6">1.5 FFmpeg does not support codec XXX. Can you include a Windows DLL loader to support it ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC7" HREF="faq.html#SEC7">1.6 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?</A>
 </UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC7" HREF="faq.html#SEC7">2. Development</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC8" HREF="faq.html#SEC8">2. Development</A>
 <UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC8" HREF="faq.html#SEC8">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC9" HREF="faq.html#SEC9">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC10" HREF="faq.html#SEC10">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC9" HREF="faq.html#SEC9">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC10" HREF="faq.html#SEC10">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC11" HREF="faq.html#SEC11">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A>
 </UL>
 </UL>
 <P><HR><P>
@@ -100,11 +101,19 @@ portable, bloated and often slow.
 
 
 
-<H1><A NAME="SEC7" HREF="faq.html#TOC7">2. Development</A></H1>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC7" HREF="faq.html#TOC7">1.6 How can I read from the standard input or write to the standard output ?</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+Use <TT>`-'</TT> as filename.
+
+
+
+
+<H1><A NAME="SEC8" HREF="faq.html#TOC8">2. Development</A></H1>
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC8" HREF="faq.html#TOC8">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC9" HREF="faq.html#TOC9">2.1 Can you support my C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 No. Only GCC is supported. GCC is ported on most systems available and I
@@ -114,7 +123,7 @@ related to the compiler.
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC9" HREF="faq.html#TOC9">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC10" HREF="faq.html#TOC10">2.2 I want to use ffmpeg or libavcodec under Windows. Can you support my proprietary C compiler XXX ?</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 No. Use <CODE>mingw-gcc</CODE> available at <A HREF="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</A> to
@@ -124,7 +133,7 @@ windows compilers.
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC10" HREF="faq.html#TOC10">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC11" HREF="faq.html#TOC11">2.3 Can you add automake, libtool or autoconf support ?</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 No. These tools are too blowted and they complicate the build. Moreover,
@@ -133,7 +142,7 @@ terms of portability.
 
 
 <P><HR><P>
-This document was generated on 4 November 2002 using
+This document was generated on 19 November 2002 using
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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 @@
 <HTML>
 <HEAD>
-<!-- Created by texi2html 1.56k from ffmpeg-doc.texi on 27 October 2002 -->
+<!-- Created by texi2html 1.56k from ffmpeg-doc.texi on 19 November 2002 -->
 
 <TITLE>FFmpeg Documentation</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
@@ -32,13 +32,21 @@
 <LI><A NAME="TOC15" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC15">5.2 Video Codecs</A>
 <LI><A NAME="TOC16" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC16">5.3 Audio Codecs</A>
 </UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC17">6. Developpers Guide</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC17">6. Platform Specific information</A>
 <UL>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC18">6.1 API</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC19">6.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC20">6.3 Coding Rules</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC21">6.4 Submitting patches</A>
-<LI><A NAME="TOC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC22">6.5 Regression tests</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC18">6.1 Linux</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC19">6.2 BSD</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC20">6.3 Windows</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC21">6.4 MacOS X</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC22">6.5 BeOS</A>
+</UL>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC23" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC23">7. Developpers Guide</A>
+<UL>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC24" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC24">7.1 API</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC25" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC25">7.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC26" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC26">7.3 Coding Rules</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC27" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC27">7.4 Submitting patches</A>
+<LI><A NAME="TOC28" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC28">7.5 Regression tests</A>
 </UL>
 </UL>
 <P><HR><P>
@@ -438,8 +446,8 @@ dump video coding statistics to file
 <H2><A NAME="SEC11" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC11">3.6 Protocols</A></H2>
 
 <P>
-The output file can be "-" to output to a pipe. This is only possible
-with mpeg1 and h263 formats. 
+The filename can be <TT>`-'</TT> to read from the standard input or to write
+to the standard output.
 
 
 <P>
@@ -685,11 +693,71 @@ performances on systems without hardware floating point support).
 
 
 
-<H1><A NAME="SEC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC17">6. Developpers Guide</A></H1>
+<H1><A NAME="SEC17" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC17">6. Platform Specific information</A></H1>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC18">6.1 Linux</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+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.
+
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC19">6.2 BSD</A></H2>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC20">6.3 Windows</A></H2>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC21">6.4 MacOS X</A></H2>
+
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="SEC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC22">6.5 BeOS</A></H2>
+
+<P>
+The configure script should guess the configuration itself.
+Networking support is currently not finished.
+errno issues fixed by Andrew Bachmann.
+
+
+<P>
+Old stuff:
+
+
+<P>
+François Revol - revol at free dot fr - April 2002
+
+
+<P>
+The configure script should guess the configuration itself, 
+however I still didn't tested building on net_server version of BeOS.
+
+
+<P>
+ffserver is broken (needs poll() implementation).
+
+
+<P>
+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)
+
+
+
+
+<H1><A NAME="SEC23" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC23">7. Developpers Guide</A></H1>
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC18" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC18">6.1 API</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC24" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC24">7.1 API</A></H2>
 
 <UL>
 <LI>libavcodec is the library containing the codecs (both encoding and
@@ -704,7 +772,7 @@ performances on systems without hardware floating point support).
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC19" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC19">6.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC25" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC25">7.2 Integrating libavcodec or libavformat in your program</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 You can integrate all the source code of the libraries to link them
@@ -721,7 +789,7 @@ to send your patches to the ffmpeg mailing list.
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC20" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC20">6.3 Coding Rules</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC26" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC26">7.3 Coding Rules</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 ffmpeg is programmed in ANSI C language. GCC extensions are
@@ -745,7 +813,7 @@ can be generated automatically.
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC21" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC21">6.4 Submitting patches</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC27" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC27">7.4 Submitting patches</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 When you submit your patch, try to send a unified diff (diff '-u'
@@ -773,7 +841,7 @@ transmission) to the ffmpeg-devel mailinglist, see
 
 
 
-<H2><A NAME="SEC22" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC22">6.5 Regression tests</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="SEC28" HREF="ffmpeg-doc.html#TOC28">7.5 Regression tests</A></H2>
 
 <P>
 Before submitting a patch (or commiting with CVS), you should at least
@@ -803,7 +871,7 @@ accordingly].
 
 
 <P><HR><P>
-This document was generated on 27 October 2002 using
+This document was generated on 19 November 2002 using
 <A HREF="http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html/">texi2html</A>&nbsp;1.56k.
 </BODY>
 </HTML>
diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
index beb5a9a5cc..781d8dc68c 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ dump video coding statistics to file
 
 @section Protocols
 
-The output file can be "-" to output to a pipe. This is only possible
-with mpeg1 and h263 formats. 
+The filename can be @file{-} to read from the standard input or to write
+to the standard output.
 
 ffmpeg handles also many protocols specified with the URL syntax.
 
@@ -398,6 +398,40 @@ solutions.
 @code{I} means that an integer only version is available too (ensures highest
 performances on systems without hardware floating point support).
 
+@chapter Platform Specific information
+
+@section 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.
+
+@section BSD
+
+@section Windows
+
+@section MacOS X
+
+@section 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)
+
 @chapter Developpers Guide
 
 @section API
author	Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>	2002-11-19 19:16:26 +0000
committer	Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>	2002-11-19 19:16:26 +0000
commit	47d944d2be6ab5a70f69f619ef10179ed3fd32b1 (patch)
tree	6c60c12649eef61acd6e239be2351c4414d82b55 /doc
parent	b242baa411976134d950d8106aa86a6e2a7eb3c9 (diff)