Warp wrote:
>   mencoder is a tool from hackers to hackers.

In other words, hey, the guy who wrote it knows how to use it... :-)

It always bugs me when people build open-source tools they expect others 
to use (like libraries and such) and then expect you to read the source 
code to try to figure out what it does because they're too lazy to write 
even the vaguest of documentation.

For something like mencoder, it's pretty reasonable. Author needs to 
encode some video, author writes a tool, author gives it away.

But I run into way too many situations where people write stuff with the 
express intent of you using it and/or even improving it, and they don't 
put any documentation into it.  Imagine POV-Ray if it came with no 
documentation but the sample files....

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Helpful housekeeping hints:
   Check your feather pillows for holes
    before putting them in the washing machine.

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