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Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by Culonavirus »

0xbeefcab wrote: post #4

Linking a previous discussion to FFMPEG's inclusion of whisper in this release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 This seemed to be interesting to users of this site. tl;dr they added support for whisper, an OpenAI model for speech-to-text, which should allow autogeneration of captions via ffmpeg

these days most movies and series already come out with captions, but you know what does not, given the vast amount of it?... ;)

yep, finally the deaf will able to read what people are saying in a porno!

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by jeanlucas »

Culonavirus wrote: post #6
pmarreck wrote: post #3

Impressed anytime I have to use it (even if I have to study its man page again or use an LLM to construct the right incantation or use a GUI that just builds the incantation based on visual options). Becoming an indispensable transcoding multitool. I think building some processing off of Vulkan 1.3 was the right move. (Aside, I also just noticed yesterday that Asahi Linux on Mac supports that standard as well.)

> incantation FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

nope, that would be handling tar balls

ffmpeg right after

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by 0xbeefcab »

JadoJodo wrote: post #7

I don't know a huge amount about video encoding, but I presume this is one of those libraries outlined in xkcd 2347[0]? [0] - https://xkcd.com/2347/

Yeah, basically anytime a video or audio is being recorded, played, or streamed its from ffmpeg. It runs on a couple planets [0], and on most devices (maybe?)

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by porridgeraisin »

jeanlucas wrote: post #13
Culonavirus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> incantation FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

nope, that would be handling tar balls ffmpeg right after

Personally I never understood the problem with tar balls.

The only options you ever need are tar -x, tar -c (x for extract and c for create). tar -l if you wanna list, l for list.

That's really it, -v for verbose just like every other tool if you wish.

Examples:

  tar -c project | gzip > backup.tar.gz
  cat backup.tar.gz | gunzip | tar -l
  cat backup.tar.gz | gunzip | tar -x
You never need anything else for the 99% case.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by NSUserDefaults »

Keyframe wrote: post #10
Culonavirus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> incantation FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

with gemini-cli and claude-cli you can now prompt while it prompts ffmpeg, and it does work.

Curious to see how quickly each LLM picks up the new codecs/options.
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