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Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by mrandish »

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

I'd also include Regex in the list of dark arts incantations.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by BeepInABox »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For anyone curious, unless you are running a 'tar' binary from the stone ages, just skip the gunzip and cat invocations. Replace .gz with .xz or other well known file ending for different compression.

  Examples:
    tar -cf archive.tar.gz foo bar  # Create archive.tar.gz from files foo and bar.
    tar -tvf archive.tar.gz         # List all files in archive.tar.gz verbosely.
    tar -xf archive.tar.gz          # Extract all files from archive.tar.gz

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by beala »

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

Tough crowd.

fwiw, `tar xzf foobar.tgz` = "_x_tract _z_e _f_iles!" has been burned into my brain. It's "extract the files" spoken in a Dr. Strangelove German accent

Better still, I recently discovered `dtrx` (https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx) and it's great if you have the ability to install it on the host. It calls the right commands and also always extracts into a subdir, so no more tar-bombs.

If you want to create a tar, I'm sorry but you're on your own.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by CamperBob2 »

tombert wrote: post #33
porridgeraisin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah I never really understood why people complain about tar; 99% of what you need from it is just `tar -xvf blah.tar.gz`.

What value does tar add over plain old zip? That's what annoys me about .tar files full of .gzs or .zips (or vice versa) -- why do people nest container formats for no reason at all?

I don't use tape, so I don't need a tape archive format.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by npteljes »

larodi wrote: post #26

Is anyone else on the opinion that ffmpeg now ranks 4th as the most used lib after ssl, zlib, and sqlite... given video is like omnipresent in 2025?

It's up there in the hall of fame, that's for sure!

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by instagraham »

oldgregg wrote: post #52

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.

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 :<

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by AlienRobot »

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).

It would need to be a non-linear editor node-based editor. Pretty much all open source video editors are just FFMPEG frontends, e.g. Kdenlive.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by selectodude »

joenot443 wrote: post #59
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.

Handbrake receives pretty regular updates.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by kevinsync »

joenot443 wrote: post #59
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.

Seconded, HandBrake[0] is great for routine tasks / workflows. The UI could be simplified just a tad for super duper simple stuff (ex. ripping a multi-episode tv show disc but don't care about disc extras? you kind of have to hunt and poke based on stream length to decide which parts are the actual episodes. The app itself could probably reliably guess and present you with a 1-click 'queue these up' flow for instance) but otherwise really a wonderful tool!

Past that, I'm on the command line haha

[0] https://handbrake.fr

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