On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 21:20, Mark Filipak < markfilipak.windows+ffm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you have a budget? > Sure. Assuming this isn't a mathematician's answer, you may wish to disclose your budget if you want people to do private work for you. With that information they can decide if they wish to proceed. > When the command lines are corrected, that > status is rarely disclosed or acknowledged. I submit that if you are content for people on this ML to submit you 'working' commands, you can be assured that commands sent to other users do indeed work. >> how will people sending you thousands >> of examples know they are being helpful? > I will thank them. My apologies for being unspecific. How will they know in advance what they take time to write, check and send will be useful to you, and not a waste of their (and your) time? ...which relates to my next point... > Are you serious? Having read these emails I still do not know what for you constitutes a 'working' command. It seems to me that if that command completes, then -- the snark it conveys notwithstanding -- it would serve your analysis purposes. If you have explained what a 'working' command is, it has been buried somewhere in the sea of responses and I have missed it, apologies. Since you introduced an analogy -- car parts to Paris! -- which I enjoyed earlier I'll introduce one of my own: you've asked us to go and gather and send you hundreds-to-thousands of daisies. We don't know why you want daisies, other than for 'analysis'. We point out that there's a lot written about daisies online, from discussions about daisies to some botanical journals. Or you can pick daisies from fields nearby you. But for some reason we cannot understand neither the descriptions, nor the daisies near you suffice. We need to pick them and send them to you, you assure us. But we're not sure why and we want to know more before we do but it takes a lot of questions before you elaborate; so we're not sure we want to go to the effort of picking daisies (so to speak) before we agree that is the only way to achieve what you want to achieve. Analogies are like cheap diamonds: they look good but they are often imperfect. I know mine is not perfect. But since you've tried to illustrate your side I hope this illustrates my understanding of the issue. If not, I had fun writing it. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".