What you need to know before touching a video file
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#2video format world is one where you nope out pretty quick once you realize how many moving pieces there are.
ffmpeg seems ridiculously complicated, but infact its amazing the amount of work that happens under the hood when you do
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.webm
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#3Really good quickstart guide
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#4This is a great write up. Thank you for sharing.
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#5Interesting read, it’s a shame the ranty format makes it 3x longer than necessary.
Not sure why it takes a dump on VLC - it’s been the most stable and friendly video player for Windows for a long time (it matters that ordinary users, like school teachers, can use it without special training. I don’t care how ideological you are about Linux or video players or whatever lol).
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#6What's wrong with VLC?
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#7Pretty good writeup but not sure why VLC is not recommended...?
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#8Interesting read, it’s a shame the ranty format makes it 3x longer than necessary. Not sure why it takes a dump on VLC - it’s been the most stable and friendly video player for Windows for a long time (it matters that ordinary users, like school teachers, can use it without special training. I don’t care how ideological you are about Linux or video players or whatever lol).
VLC works great on Linux too! It's one of the few programs where I expect the exact same look and feel regardless of the underlying OS.
mpv is okay but its complete reliance on command line flags and manually written config files makes it a bore.
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#9It seems really weirdly written. It's written with a lot of authority, like saying "Don't use VLC" and "Don't use Y" yet provides no reasoning for those things. Just putting "Trust me, just don't" doesn't suddenly mean I trust the author more, it probably has the opposite effect. Some sections seem to differ based on if the reader knows/doesn't know something, but I thought the article was supposed to be for the latter.
Would have been nice if these "MUST KNOW BEFORE" advises were structured in a way so one could easily come back and use it as a reference, like just a list, but instead it's like a over-dinner conversation with your "expert and correct but socially-annoying" work colleague, who refuses to elaborate on the how's and why's, but still have very strong opinions.
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#10What's wrong with VLC?
Making such a bold, unsubstantiated claim is a curious item in an otherwise detailed document. I went looking for other explanations and found this gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/m1sxjo/it_is_better_mp...
I think it might be one of those classic “everyone should just get good like me” style opinions you find polluting some subject matter communities.