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

[Phil Rhodes]

> > Out of curiosity, what are
> peoples' thoughts on adding some basic
> > crash course "getting started" stuff on what (raw)
> video and audio is
> > and how they work, what codecs are and how they work,
> and what format
> > containers are and how they work?

That I certainly can write - in fact, I've written that sort of intro many times before for various people. There are a couple of problems, though, mainly that I'd like to see a decent amount of progress on the API technical side of it before committing the time.

P