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I genuinely feel like ffmpeg is kind of like a "secret weapon". Occasionally my dad will need some help with video or audio, and he'll see me hack together an
by tombert 3y ago
I genuinely feel like ffmpeg is kind of like a "secret weapon".
Occasionally my dad will need some help with video or audio, and he'll see me hack together an ffmpeg command (even on Android with termux in a pinch!) and be utterly astounded. Being able to quickly slice up the video without re-encoding, or being able to stitch video together without a re-encode, or being able to arbitrarily glue a bunch of videos together all of different formats and it will work flawlessly.
It's a piece of software I would gladly pay hundreds of dollars for, and yet it manages to be free. I think I'll visit their donate page right now.
- vrosas 3y agoIt’s amazing how many companies are literally just ffmpeg-as-a-service. It wasn’t a ton of money but I saved my last company a few hundred bucks a month they were paying a service to convert .gif files to .mp4
- tombert 3y agoImageMagick as well! At a big social media company I used to work at [1], they were spending a not-insignificant amount of money (in the millions) to their CDN/caching provider just to have images resized and converted to PNG and WebP. I am pretty sure all this CDN was doing was running the image through ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick and calling it a day, and charging absurd quantities of money to do it. [1] it's not hard to find my employment history but I ask you not to say it publicly here