You got my downvote, there. I saw your comment before I got a chance to read the article, and once I saw the article, and its many pages breaking the components

You got my downvote, there. I saw your comment before I got a chance to read the article, and once I saw the article, and its many pages breaking the components down into introducing the framework, outputting video, sound, etc... The equivalent to what you're saying would be if he'd just used the HTML5 <video> tag. This is actually a great article, it taught me a little bit more about FFMPEG under the hood, and knowledge is power. I also like that it just used C.