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ffmpeg says, "hold my beer"! https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

• dylan604 7y ago
  that was confusing. when i read this, it was exiftool, so i was going to reply with ffmpeg. looks like you felt it was a better example as well anything as powerful as FFMPEG, EXIFTool, ImageMagick, x264/265, etc is going to have switches/options from hell just out of plain necessity. these are not simple little Unix-esque tools. these are full blown applications that just happen to not have a UI.
• kqr 7y ago
  The same thing goes for ImageMagick, but that seems unfair because it's more that they have created a command-line language for describing multimedia transformation pipelines. It's not as much that the arguments allow you to run a program under variant configurations, but rather that you create completely new programs for each run.
• _Gyan_ 7y ago
  You've missed all the component options :) See https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html
• jandrese 7y ago
  I'll note that video encoding GUI screens tend to be overwhelming as well. It's simply a complex problem with a whole lot of parameters you might want to tweak. The alternative is to hide all of the complexity and hope that the defaults are good enough for your users. Which works ok for stuff like Mom encoding her cell phone video but falls down pretty quick when someone needs to do something slightly out of the box, like add in a second audio track.