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Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by conradev »

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

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> 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.

Yeah, you can give an LLM queries like “make this smaller with libx265 and add the hvc1 tag” or “concatenate these two videos” and it usually crushes it. They have a similar level of mastery over imagemagick, too!

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by oldgregg »

LLMs have really made ffmpeg implementations easy-- the command line options are so expansive and obscure it's so nice to just tell it what you want and have it spit out a crazy ffmpeg command.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by jeanlucas »

porridgeraisin wrote: post #18
jeanlucas wrote: post #13

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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.

it was just a reference to xkcd#1168

I wasn't expecting the downvotes for an xkcd reference

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by Dwedit »

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).

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by josteink »

Nice! Anyone have any idea how and when this will affect downstream projects like yt-dlp, jellyfin, etc? Especially with regard to support for HW-acceleration?

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by stevejb »

NSUserDefaults wrote: post #19
Keyframe wrote: post #10

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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.

I use the Warp terminal and I can ask it to run —-help and it figures it out

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by perihelions »

rob wrote: post #25
euazOn wrote: post #22

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Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?

Definitely weird. No new comments from @praveenhm to HN in almost two years and then the first one made is some ChatGPT-generated one.

There's actually a pattern of these accounts that look like they were once real people, who stopped commenting, and multiple years later were necromanced as a spam-zombie. You'll notice it clearly if you start looking at the histories of spammers after you [flag] them.

I've complained several times to the mods about it, so I'm sure they're aware too.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by joenot443 »

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).

Handbrake fits the bill, I think!

It's a great tool. Little long in the tooth these days, but gets the job done.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by pseudosavant »

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).

I haven't used a GUI I like, but LLMs like ChatGPT have been so good for solving this for me. I tell it exactly what I need it to do and it produces the ffmpeg command to do it.
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