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<sect1>
<title>Where am I ?</title>
<para>
-You are currently looking at a piece of documentation for xine.
+You are currently looking at a piece of documentation for xine.
xine is a free video player. It lives on
-<ulink url="http://xine.sf.net">http://xine.sf.net</ulink>.
+<ulink url="http://xine.sf.net">http://xine.sf.net</ulink>. Specifically
+this document goes under the moniker of the 'xine Hackers' Guide'.
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -13,12 +14,18 @@ xine is a free video player. It lives on
This document should help xine hackers to find their way through
xine's architecture and source code. It's a pretty free-form document
containing a loose collection of articles describing various aspects
-of xine's internals.
+of xine's internals. It has been written by a number of people who work
+on xine themselves and is intended to provide the important concepts and
+methods used within xine. Readers should not consider this document to be
+an exhausative description of the internals of xine. As with all projects
+which provide access, the source-code should be considered the definative source
+of information.
</para>
<para>
-This document has no intention to and therefore will never be complete or
-current in any way.
+This document has no intention to be, and therefore never will be, complete or
+current in any way. Instead it should be considered a read-map pointing the
+casual hacker to the correct location in the xine source.
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -45,4 +52,4 @@ All comments, error reports, additional information and criticism of
all sorts should be directed to the xine developer mailing list
<email>xine-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</email>.
</para>
-</sect1> \ No newline at end of file
+</sect1>