What you are doing is certainly noble, but you must realise that posting to a list with the subject line "quest for help", and with message content consisting solely of a riddle is poor list etiquette. Your posts cannot be of much help to the Transcode users if they contain no usable search terms in their headers or content.
Carl Karsten wrote: > I am fishing for some help, most of which will help transcode. Here is a > summary > > http://chipy.org/V4l2forPyCon > > Let me know if I am missing something, and pass it around to anyone that > might be able to help.