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Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
I still find it kinda odd that this is still the best tool out there for this sort of work. Archaic parameters and options and exceptionally hard to read documentation. Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
I still find it kinda odd that this is still the best tool out there for this sort of work. Archaic parameters and options and exceptionally hard to read documentation. Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
the second problem is that ffmpeg has a lot of features, and nobody wants to go through and fully document hundreds of formats, codecs, and filters.
I still find it kinda odd that this is still the best tool out there for this sort of work. Archaic parameters and options and exceptionally hard to read documentation. Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
Not sure how true it is, but I read somewhere that the reason it's so good at what it does is because it's used at scale by certain large websites (youtube being specifically mentioned).
Fun fact: sRGB also has a non-black black point that is (fortunately) virtually ignored by everyone.
As far as I can tell in XYZ black is (0,0,0) and the only sRGB value that maps to that is (0,0,0)
I still find it kinda odd that this is still the best tool out there for this sort of work. Archaic parameters and options and exceptionally hard to read documentation. Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
Not sure how true it is, but I read somewhere that the reason it's so good at what it does is because it's used at scale by certain large websites (youtube being specifically mentioned).
Disclosure: FFmpeg contributor and Vimeo employee.
I still find it kinda odd that this is still the best tool out there for this sort of work. Archaic parameters and options and exceptionally hard to read documentation. Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
It used scripts, and it required external tools to do the encoding but despite the complexity, I found it less arcane than ffmpeg command lines for similar operations.
I still find it kinda odd that this is still the best tool out there for this sort of work. Archaic parameters and options and exceptionally hard to read documentation. Maybe I'm just dumb and not in the domain enough to get a decent handle but everytime I use ffmpeg I feel like a Norse Shaman trying through trial and error to locate the correct orientation of runes for the blessing.
there are two problems here. the main problem is that nobody reads the manual, which actually starts out half-decent. the description is very clear, concise, and even contains the oft-whinged-about examples. https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html the second problem is that ffmpeg has a lot of features, and nobody wants to go through and fully document hundreds of formats, codecs, and filters.