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I anticipate some much more savvy than myself saying this wrapper is unnecessary as you can do all of this “easily” with ffmpeg. I welcome tools like this that

I anticipate some much more savvy than myself saying this wrapper is unnecessary as you can do all of this “easily” with ffmpeg. I welcome tools like this that have a more common user in mind, evidenced immediately in the beginning of the README with common use cases. Ffmpegs documentation on the other hand forces me to feel as though it’s normal to assume knowledge about a point in a video and what it means if my encoders are different from input to output.

jahlove 6y ago
I consider myself pretty savvy and have used ffmpeg many times over the years. I struggle through it like hell every time. I'd gladly use something like this.
handol 6y ago
> Ffmpegs documentation ffplay --help 8826 lines
- rezonant 6y ago
  oh sweet summer child
- mkl 6y ago
  That's ffplay. $ man ffmpeg-all 2> /dev/null | wc -l 33160
  - luckman212 6y ago
    why are you redirecting stderr? does `man ffmpeg` produce error output on your system? anyway, on my system (macOS, ffmpeg 4.3.1 from Homebrew) the situation is even more dire: $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l 38738
    - mkl 6y ago
      On my system (Kubuntu 20.04) man/troff produces errors when its output is redirected: $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l troff: <standard input>:6148: warning [p 42, 3.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:6150: warning [p 42, 3.7i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:11396: warning [p 68, 8.7i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:11398: warning [p 68, 9.2i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:13562: warning [p 79, 6.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:13564: warning [p 79, 6.5i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:26366: warning [p 132, 17.2i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:38313: warning [p 174, 27.5i]: can't break line 33160 No idea what it means.
timc3 6y ago
Even if what the abstraction is doing is not really the best way of doing things? For example not the best - re-encoding video or audio tracks when it could just copy them, picking the defaults when their is a better quality option? Video and audio processing is one of things that if you want good results with wide flexibility you have to learn it and also try things out.

jahlove 6y ago

I consider myself pretty savvy and have used ffmpeg many times over the years. I struggle through it like hell every time. I'd gladly use something like this.

handol 6y ago

> Ffmpegs documentation ffplay --help 8826 lines

rezonant 6y ago
oh sweet summer child
mkl 6y ago
That's ffplay. $ man ffmpeg-all 2> /dev/null | wc -l 33160
- luckman212 6y ago
  why are you redirecting stderr? does `man ffmpeg` produce error output on your system? anyway, on my system (macOS, ffmpeg 4.3.1 from Homebrew) the situation is even more dire: $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l 38738
  - mkl 6y ago
    On my system (Kubuntu 20.04) man/troff produces errors when its output is redirected: $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l troff: <standard input>:6148: warning [p 42, 3.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:6150: warning [p 42, 3.7i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:11396: warning [p 68, 8.7i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:11398: warning [p 68, 9.2i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:13562: warning [p 79, 6.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:13564: warning [p 79, 6.5i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:26366: warning [p 132, 17.2i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:38313: warning [p 174, 27.5i]: can't break line 33160 No idea what it means.

timc3 6y ago

Even if what the abstraction is doing is not really the best way of doing things? For example not the best - re-encoding video or audio tracks when it could just copy them, picking the defaults when their is a better quality option? Video and audio processing is one of things that if you want good results with wide flexibility you have to learn it and also try things out.