Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

konalt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ffmpeg is a GODSEND. saves me going to those “convert to file type” websites when I can do it locally and so much faster 😩🙏

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  • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Another one of those tools is image magic. Like ffmpeg but for images

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ImageMagick

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  • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s even better when tied to an automation app. I’ve got FileFlows sitting in my media library, so any time I drop new stuff in, it automatically gets converted to my preferred on disk format.

    I still get some ones I have to touch manually, but most of it gets taken care of without even thinking about it.

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  • dave@lemmy.wtf ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    also FFShare on android as well. you share a video to it from another app, then it spits out a smaller sized file. so instead of trying to sent a 20mb video to someone its more like 3mb and sends a lot quicker (depending on the settings you use)

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• dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ffmpeg is where my mind went. It’s so good I don’t even know what the alternative is.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There probably actually isn’t an alternative. Whatever piece of software you might otherwise use to encode or convert video is probably using ffmpeg behind the scenes anyway.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For images (it can process images as well) imagemagick is used.

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• scheep@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  all are great :D

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