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But the chances of you being able to achieve the same with the linked tool are also zero. That's all I am really saying. I'm not arguing that ffmpeg can get very complex (I was tal…

Thank you, this explains my thoughts really well.

Yes, absolutely. Multimedia is complicated. But my issue with the linked tool is that it does none of the things you mentioned. All it does it make already very easy things even ea…

> Not really sure how else I was supposed to interpret your comment Yes, that was a bit facetious of me, I apologize for that. > What is so bad about the existence of this project?…

I'm not saying it couldn't be better (and I even gave examples), my point is that the drawbacks of such a wrapper outweigh the benefits, at least when it's such an oversimplified o…

> Is it -c:v or -v:c? Sure, I agree with all of this. Like I said above, the syntax (and, even more, the defaults) isn't great. I'm just arguing that "improving the syntax" should …

I do, yes. Though that's not really the point, it'd already be enough to know where to look it up.

Yes, I am not opposed to ffmpeg wrappers in and of themselves. Some decent ffmpeg wrappers definitely exist. But I argue in my comment above that this specific tool does not have b…

Days since last ffmpeg CLI wrapper: 0 It's incredible what lengths people go to to avoid memorizing basic ffmpeg usage. It's really not that hard, and the (F.) manual explains the …

Because the linked article is from 2013.

Setting aside the various formatting problems and the LLM writing style, this just seems all kinds of wrong throughout. > “Just lower the bitrate,” you say. Great idea. Now it’s 10…