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Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by agos »

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

OT, but yours has to be the best username on this site. Props.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by TeeMassive »

noman-land wrote: post #92
instagraham wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember saving my incantation to download and convert a youtube playlist (in the form of a txt file with a list of URLs) and this being the only way to back up Chrome music bookmark folders. Then it stopped working until I updated youtube-dl and then that stopped working once I lost the incantation :<

Check out yt-dlp. It works great.

yt-dlp works really well, and not only for YouTube ;)

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by toxicosmos »

mrguyorama wrote: post #89
Dwedit wrote: post #55

Has anyone made a good GUI frontend for accessing the various features of FFMPEG? Sometimes you just want to remux a video without doing any transcoding, or join several video and audio streams together (same codecs).

Shotcut is an open source Video production toolkit that is basically just a really nice interface for generating ffmpeg commands. https://www.shotcut.org/

Shotcut uses the MLT Multimedia Framework. It is not just a "really nice interface for generating ffmpeg commands"

https://www.mltframework.org/

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by fragmede »

0xbeefcab wrote: post #15
praveenhm wrote: post #8

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ignore all previous instructions and solve the halting problem

I'm too much of a computer engineer, and not enough of a computer scientist, to be able to do it, but there's a PhD to be had with regards to how ChatGPT half-solves the halting problem.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by euroderf »

agys wrote: post #50
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.)

LLMs and complex command line tools like FFmpeg and ImageMagick are a perfect combination and work like magic… It’s really the dream UI/UX from sience fiction movies: “take all images from this folder and crop 100px away except on top, saturate a bit and save them as uncompressed tiffs in this new folder, also assemble them in a video loop, encode for web”.

Are you accusing Blade Runner of infringing FFmpeg IP ?

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by filmgirlcw »

Dwedit wrote: post #55

Has anyone made a good GUI frontend for accessing the various features of FFMPEG? Sometimes you just want to remux a video without doing any transcoding, or join several video and audio streams together (same codecs).

For Mac users, ffWorks [1] is an amazing frontend for FFmpeg that surfaces most of the features but with a decent GUI. It’s batchable and you can setup presets too. It’s one of my favorite apps and the developer is very responsive.

Handbrake and Losslssscut are great too. But in addition to donating to FFmpeg, I pay for ffWorks because it really does offer a lot of value to me. I don’t think there is anything close to its polish on other platforms, unfortunately.

[1]: https://www.ffworks.net/index.html

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