In article <CAL=0glsozxozk+uxwy-hxa0mcet9mdlmufqspzxjqqthv0a...@mail.gmail.com>, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Remember ffmeg has no customers, no-one pays for it. The documentation > is maintained by the community (I assume). Documentation for open > source is always a problem as few are prepared to put in the time and > effort required. Agreed and understood. Yet people have written decent books about how to use, for example, GIMP. Given how many people these days want to manipulate and watch/listen to AV material at home I suspect someone could get a return from writing a decent book on ffmpeg. The difficulty is that they have to both have a good understanding of how to use it *and* be able to write clearly at length as well as be motivated. I can quite understand *why* it hasn't happened, but the lack does, I think, simply mean people keep re-inventing wheels or use ffmpeg under the hood of other programs without tackling the basic need for *user* documentation. Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
