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`ffmpeg` reminds me of `convert` from ImageMagick, it's complex because there's a lot of media formats and the command lets you do a lot things to the media as
by tenebrisalietum 6y ago
`ffmpeg` reminds me of `convert` from ImageMagick, it's complex because there's a lot of media formats and the command lets you do a lot things to the media as well.
I liked using WinFF a time ago for simple conversion jobs though where I didn't care too much about tweaking all the knobs.
- ravenstine 6y agoIs WinFF still around in some capacity? The website doesn't load for me. Too bad if it's abandoned, because I remember it being pretty amazing. EDIT: From Big Matt's blog: > Unfortunately I lost the WinFf.org domain. I was broke but I don't think it's that important after all these many years. You can still go to github, video help, and others. https://www.biggmatt.com/2020/04/winfforg.html https://www.biggmatt.com/2020/04/winfforg.html
- tambourine_man 6y agoImageMagick's convert is much friendlier than ffmpeg: convert image.png image.jpg Does what it's suppose to and it's as simple as possible. Sure, you can get really fancy with resizing proportions but easy stuff should be easy.
- zerocrates 6y agoI mean, ffmpeg -i something.avi something.mp4 works as well, but there's just _so_ many more options inherently involved in converting a video: most inputs and outputs will be at least 2 tracks, so that's 2 codecs, and the majority of containers used now (MP4, MKV, etc.) support all sorts of codecs, so while ffmpeg will "guess" what you want just like ImageMagick does in your short example, the chances that it guesses right are a lot lower just on the basic level of what format you wanted your output to be. But it's not exactly ffmpeg's fault.
- tambourine_man 6y agoTrue, but that -i is telling. Remove it and it breaks spectacularly