Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 6387:26c35aa7e1d8
Remind people to NOT cut mplayer output, removed italics that make text
hard to read on a screen + minor fixes.
| author | diego |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:57:47 +0000 |
| parents | 039065ac8625 |
| children | ce074b142a88 |
| files | DOCS/bugreports.html |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/bugreports.html Tue Jun 11 18:35:33 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/bugreports.html Tue Jun 11 18:57:47 2002 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> -<STYLE> +<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> .text {font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size : 14px;} @@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ <P><B>What to report?</B></P> -<P><B><I>System Information</I></B></P> +<P><B>System Information</B></P> <UL> <LI>Your Linux distribution or operating system e.g.: @@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ </LI> </UL> -<P><B><I>Hardware & drivers</I></B></P> +<P><B>Hardware & drivers</B></P> <UL> <LI>CPU info (this works on Linux only):<BR> @@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ <P><B>For compilation problems/errors</B></P> -<P><B><I>Please include these files:</I></B></P> +<P><B>Please include these files:</B></P> <UL> <LI>configure.log</LI> <LI>config.h</LI> @@ -121,8 +122,12 @@ <P><B>For playback problems</B></P> -<P><B><I>Please include the output of mplayer at verbosity level 1</I></B></P> -<P><CODE> mplayer -v [options] filename &> mplayer.log</CODE></P> +<P>Please include the output of mplayer at verbosity level 1, but remember to +<B>not cut the output</B> when you paste it into your mail. The developers need +all of the messages to properly diagnose a problem. You can direct the output +into a file like this:</P> + +<P><CODE> mplayer -v [options] [filename] &> mplayer.log</CODE></P> <P>If your problem is specific to one or more files, then please upload the offender(s) to:</P> @@ -146,11 +151,11 @@ If the file is accessible on the net, then sending the <STRONG>exact</STRONG> URL is sufficient.</P> -<P><B><I>For crashes</I></B></P> +<P><B>For crashes</B></P> -<P><I>If you have a core dump of the crash continue reading the next paragraph, otherwise skip it.</I></P> +<P>If you have a core dump of the crash continue reading the next paragraph, otherwise skip it.</P> -<P><B><I>How to extract meaningful information from a core dump</I></B></P> +<P><B>How to extract meaningful information from a core dump</B></P> <P>Please create following command file:</P> @@ -168,7 +173,7 @@ <P>Then simply execute the following on your command line:</P> <P> <CODE>gdb mplayer --core=core -batch --command=command_file > mplayer.bug</CODE></P> -<P><B><I>How to conserve information about a reproducible crash</I></B></P> +<P><B>How to conserve information about a reproducible crash</B></P> <P>Re-compile mplayer with debugging code enabled:</P> <P><CODE> ./configure --enable-debug=3<BR> make</CODE></P> @@ -186,7 +191,7 @@ <P><B>General note</B></P> <P>If something is quite big (logs for instance) then it is better to upload -it to the FTP-server in a compressed format (gzip and bzip preferred) and +it to the FTP server in a compressed format (gzip and bzip preferred) and include only the path and filename in your bug report.</P> <P><B>I know what I am doing...</B></P>