It seems that my computer usage is mild. I use ffmpeg to convert albums (which I don't usually do because I download everything in flac), and I've got a couple

It seems that my computer usage is mild. I use ffmpeg to convert albums (which I don't usually do because I download everything in flac), and I've got a couple of convert.sh lying around. My most advanced usage of ffmpeg was enabling streaming in aac for gonic (you can't do gapless with mp3 and opus wouldn't play). This just to say anything that is more than a couple flag usually find themselves as alias, function, or shell script. > I could look up all those flags, but I haven't. But the command did seem to work! I'm sure the HN crowd can critique. =) Not critique. But just highlighting that ffmpeg is a power tool. Most of the intricacies are codecs and audio/video knowledge. Not ffmpeg itself. You have stuff like containers, video codecs, audio codecs, audio channels, media tracks, resolution, bitrate, quality (lossy), compression rate (lossless),... and a bunc h of manipulation depending on the media type. Just for you to know, H.264 (the standard) is one of the most supported video format, playable on anything not from the stone age, it's successor is H.265 (which restarted the license controversy) which is mostly used for 4k media on the sea. Then you need a container (MP4) that can contains both the video and audio track. MKV is another type of container. yuv420 is how color is represented (Chroma subsampling), much better than RGB when you want free compression. faststart is to be able to start playing the media as soon as possible, instead of having to download a good part of the file. I think PDF have something like that too.