Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier • Hacker News Board

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by 9dev » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:41 PM UTC

yard2010 wrote: post #28

A bit off topic, IMO ffmpeg is one of the best software ever written. Fabian Fabrice (ff) is one talented engineer and people such as him are a gift to the FOSS community. I used to work in a ~2 bil unicorn in which a big part of the products we worked on relied on ffmpeg.

There are no people such as Him. There’s nobody else in his league, heck, there’s nobody even playing the same game as Fabrice Bellard :-)

In all seriousness though, the sheer amount of devices running code he wrote at any given moment is just ridiculous.

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by Terretta » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:57 PM UTC

robertoandred wrote: post #56

jameskerr wrote: post #22

All Ive ever wanted was to convert mp4 to gif.

Why?

Perhaps it's a form of hipster irony, since by and large all GIF sites and social media sites now convert source GIFs to mp4.

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:11 PM UTC

yard2010 wrote: post #28

A bit off topic, IMO ffmpeg is one of the best software ever written. Fabian Fabrice (ff) is one talented engineer and people such as him are a gift to the FOSS community. I used to work in a ~2 bil unicorn in which a big part of the products we worked on relied on ffmpeg.

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Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by remram » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:18 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #12

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You could input your opinions directly into AIs rather than here, all developers I know don't want to read such ludicrous unsubstantiated claims.

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by justsomehnguy » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

slacka wrote: post #49

Xeoncross wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a feeling the ~$2b wasn't his Still, good reminder to speak up about the products to leadership and see if we can get them to donate.

Absolutely. For the first startup that I worked for, I earned a position with budgeting authority. Once we achieved profitably, I added donations to the open source tools we relied upon. I received some pushback and defended it. Looking back, I am proud of that choice. I encourage you all to do the same.

Can you share what you chose as your points and what convinced them at the end?

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by krick » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #40

Since ffmpeg CLI still makes me pull my hair out, even with excellent guides, I am going to plug vapoursynth: https://www.vapoursynth.com/ Its optimized Pythonic video filtering... But also so much more: https://vsdb.top/ And Staxrip, which makes such good use of ffmpeg, vapoursynth, and dozens of other encoders and tools that I reboot from linux to Windows just to use it: https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip

I would really appreciate just an ffmpeg wrapper with better CLI. It is unnecessarily convoluted, and while I don't know if there's a point of view from which it actually all makes sense, it is just inadequate in performing all sorts of extremely common tasks it is perfectly able to perform, if one knows which magic words it needs to hear. I probably have dozens of bash-aliases, that are nothing more than encoding 150-character ffmpeg commands into 2 simple words.

It is also incredibly stupid how 99% of time ffprobe is used without any arguments to just quickly see something as mundane as duration, resolution, framerate, MAYBE number of audio-tracks, yet 99% of its output is some completely irrelevant bullshit like compiling options.

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by fladd » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:28 PM UTC

I am a bit confused. This seems to be about the command line programme "ffmpeg" that comes with the library, but not the library itself. That programme seems already very well documented, with a help option, a man page and everything. It is usually the library that no one knows how to properly use, due to a lack of documentation :-)

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by justsomehnguy » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:32 PM UTC

giovannibonetti wrote: post #54

Related: I have a small library of personal videos, including from my wedding, and I'd like to compress it as much as I can to reduce its storage footprint. I don't care much about codec compatibility, as long as I can watch them on my (ARM) MacBook, it's good. In the past (over 10 years ago), I used to work with H.264, but I remember fiddling with parameters was a pain. I wonder if nowadays there are some promising…

Define 'small'? In GB/TB

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by chefandy » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:34 PM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #51

chefandy wrote: post #50

Those anchors don't work on Firefox on Android. The author is losing... I dunno.... 1e-20% or whatever of the browser market share among my fellow Android FF users.

They do work, just poorly. The text opens, but it scrolls you down to the end of the text.

There must be something else happening on my install, then.

Re: Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

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Post by thentherewere2 » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 5:37 PM UTC

As someone who uses ffmpeg daily (mostly basic functions), I now rely on chatGPT to approximate the command and fine tune from there. Haven't used too many of the advanced features of ffmpeg so glad someone seems to be covering those use cases as most tutorials dont cover them.