At least ffmpeg makes it easy to do the very easiest thing. I don't have to look up this one: ffmpeg -i input.file output.file Now, usually I want to do s

At least ffmpeg makes it easy to do the very easiest thing. I don't have to look up this one: ffmpeg -i input.file output.file Now, usually I want to do something more complicated, so I end up having to look it up, but it's hardly the ffmpeg folks' fault that audio and video encoding is such an ungodly mess of different containers and encodings; while it could be better, I think most of its complexity is inherent to the problems it's trying to solve. I do think there's an argument that it tries to do too much, and the complexity could be mitigated if it were split into several smaller tools and a wrapper for the most common commands, like apt.