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It makes them better than the competition, in that I can throw practically any video format in the world at libavformat and friends based players (like vlc or m
by __david__ 11y ago
It makes them better than the competition, in that I can throw practically any video format in the world at libavformat and friends based players (like vlc or mplayer) and it just works.
It may not be "pleasurable" but it's nothing to be trifled with.
Perhaps video is just a hard problem?
- jfb 11y agoThere's no question that ffmpeg set itself a very difficult problem, and largely succeeds. But it does so in a way that is brittle and (whether purposefully or simply out of lack of knowledge) learnt nothing from e.g. QuickTime or DirectShow. The problem as I see it is that media manipulation is not really suitable for a one-size-fits-all command-line solution, and the API was slave to the command-line tools. This may have changed recently, which would be great.