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me: that media encoding command is pretty awesome! didn't know about it. also me: all OSes should just have ffmpeg preinstalled. so we don't relearn these enco
by blondin 4y ago
me: that media encoding command is pretty awesome! didn't know about it.
also me: all OSes should just have ffmpeg preinstalled. so we don't relearn these encoding commands over and over again.
- toast0 4y ago> also me: all OSes should just have ffmpeg preinstalled. so we don't relearn these encoding commands over and over again. Have you seen what happens when Apple preinstalls a useful open source utility? You're lucky if you get one update per decade. Also, if Apple preinstalled ffmpeg, it's going to be limited to only codecs (and maybe containers?) that aren't going to get Apple sued, probably not even the ones they've licensed for system use, so I hope you like 90s codecs. It's strictly better for Apple/etc to make it simpler to install MacPorts or fink or brew or whatever other package manager is cool today and let you install that and the packages you like, preferably without requiring xcode, because xcode is big.
- raffraffraff 4y agoSeriously, if Apple aren't financially supporting Homebrew, they're nuts. I'd have thrown my M1 out the window long ago if it weren't for brew. All GNU apps are aliased as defaults in my shell (ggrep, gtar, gsed etc)