changeset 10462:63ba9a05bb68

sync with HTML

--- a/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml	Thu Jul 24 09:56:41 2003 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml	Thu Jul 24 10:22:43 2003 +0000
@@ -66,31 +66,12 @@
 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
 you have any other questions, return to the <link linkend="toc">Table of
 Contents</link> and search for the topic, read the <xref linkend="faq"/>,
-or try grepping through the files.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
-<emphasis>does not exist.</emphasis> If I don't say you can encode audio from
-TV tuner, you can't.  A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed,
-though.  Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me
-quote Chris Phillips from the
-<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</ulink>
-mailing list:
+or try grepping through the files. Most questions should be answered somewhere
+here and the rest has probably already been asked on our
+<link linkend="mailinglists">mailing lists</link>.  Check the
+<ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">archives</ulink>, there
+is a lot of valuable information to be found there.
 </para>
-
-<blockquote><para>
-I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and a
-dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
-girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
-otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl I live with assumed the vacuum
-cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to
-change the bag, because she'd never done it before... now that's just
-stupid, not a case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being
-that familiar with your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b)
-ignorance. So many people seem to see the word "error" and then stop...
-few seem to actually read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
-</para></blockquote>
 </preface>