[FFmpeg-user] "getting started" for libav users

[Phil Rhodes]

As I was saying before the cat walked on the keyboard...

Can I suggest that this is a good example of the way documentation should go:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd390352(v=vs.85).aspx

I cite this not because it describes software that has a similar purpose to ffmpeg (though that doesn't hurt), but because I was able to understand and use directshow using that in a matter of a few hours, and directshow is a notoriously complex beast.

Yes, I know it's Microsoft, and I know they're spawn of satan, etc, but MSDN is a thing of extreme beauty (in parts at least) and it's hard to argue with them on a documentation front. Useful as a function list is, it doesn't describe how to use the thing. Each function needs examples and a writeup on likely use cases.

I occasionally make money as a technical writer and I would be pleased to help out with this - if I had the slightest idea how it was all supposed to work.

P