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#14 Re: LVM HOWTO, mplayer man page, & FOSS resources Posted by Anonymous (213.171.xx.xx) on Thu 24 Apr 2008 at 11:24 "The problem, which 'man mplayer' is a particular good illustration of, is 'feature-oriented' documentation which is worthless for beginners." Not at all. The problem, which the previous poster is a particular good illustration of, is that "man mplayer" is *not* the problem, but the "beginners" unability to properly use google. A secondary problem is the "beginners" tendency to do "something" while lacking the minimal abilities about what such "something" is all about. I'll won't go into if that's a good or a bad thing but the case is that just ten years ago "extracting a frame from a film" (for a wide definition of "film") was what professionals were for. Definetly a professional, knowing exactly what was trying to do and with a bit of abiliy about "googling", would fastly find his way for the proper documentation since all that he would need is a fast path about the exact way a given program will do what he knows has to be done, while a "beginner", as your posts clearly demonstrate will not only need to find "how to extract a frame from an mpeg" but what are the minimal basis, common jargon and well known practices about that business. And then, it comes it's all about pedagogy: I find a book much better for self teaching than a random path by Google since the latter won't tell you how much you ignore about the realm you are walking into (as it's clearly demonstrated i.e. by the vast ammount of windows "administrators" able to do "something" just because it's all about clicking here and there and that "something" resulting in great inefficencies and security risks just because they didn't know better about the consecuencies and collateral effects of the "something" their clicking opened).

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