Finally! RealVideo 6 support.
FFmpeg 8.0
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Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#92LLMs 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 :<
Check out yt-dlp. It works great.
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#93T3.gg in shambles
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#94Has 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).
ChatGPT and other llms
Pretty sure ChatGPT counts as a CLI, not as a GUI.
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
with gemini-cli and claude-cli you can now prompt while it prompts ffmpeg, and it does work.
Just seeking a clarification on how this would be done: One would use gemini-cli (or claude-cli), - and give a natural language prompt to gemini (or claude) on what processing needs to be done, - with the correct paths to FFmpeg and the media file, - and g-cli (or c-cli) would take it from there. Is this correct?
Yes. It works amazingly well for ffmpeg.
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A tar of gzip or zip files doesn't make sense. But gzipping or zipping a tar does.
Gzip only compresses a single file, so .tar.gz lets you bundle multiple files. You can do the same thing with zip, of course, but...
Zip compresses individual files separately in the container, ignoring redundancies between files. But .tar.gz (and .tar.zip, though I've rarely seen that combination) bundles the files together and then compresses them, so can get better compression than .zip alone.
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just seeking a clarification on how this would be done: One would use gemini-cli (or claude-cli), - and give a natural language prompt to gemini (or claude) on what processing needs to be done, - with the correct paths to FFmpeg and the media file, - and g-cli (or c-cli) would take it from there. Is this correct?
Yes. It works amazingly well for ffmpeg.
Thank you.
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious to see how quickly each LLM picks up the new codecs/options.
the canonical (if that's the right word for a 2-year-old technique) solution is to paste the whole manual into the context before asking questions
Gemini can now load context from a URL in the API (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/url-context), but I'm not sure if that has made it to the web interfaces yet.
Re: FFmpeg 8.0
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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.
Is it too big a leap for me to assume someone is going around using password spraying or whatever to compromise neglected accounts for use as spam bots?