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We're all thinking it, but holy cow is FFmpeg one of the craziest pieces of software I have on my computer. The amount of neat things I've been able to do with
by jjice 6y ago
We're all thinking it, but holy cow is FFmpeg one of the craziest pieces of software I have on my computer. The amount of neat things I've been able to do with it and toss them into a bash loop and go to bed is incredible. I'm sure a lot of us get a kick out of automating our tasks, and FFmpeg is king when it comes to that.
- tootie 6y agoffmpeg and curl are two open source products I just tip my hat to.
- 1-6 6y agoFFmpeg, curl, and NumPy epitomizes the concept of “Do One Thing and Do it Well.”
- johnmaguire 6y agoWhat exactly is ffmpeg's one thing? Or curl's for that matter?
- kblev 6y agoCurl does loads of stuff, supports so many protocols - HTTP, LDAP, FTP etc.
- corobo 6y agoCLI video editing Make web requests
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- whatshisface 6y agoCurl's "one thing" is to get files from the network in every conceivable way possible. Ffmpeg's is to convert media files between every conceivable set of formats possible.
- touisteur 6y agoImageMagick and gnuplot.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoGraphicsMagick is like ImageMagick but much more sane & performant. http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
- KishanBagaria 6y ago+ jq, youtube-dl
- jmathai 6y agoI'd like to add exiftool to this list.
- agumonkey 6y agojq is a neat young one on this list I think also at the metalevel, gnu parallel
- rbonvall 6y agoI'd add Pandoc to all the ones mentioned in sibling comments.