me btw

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• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s very simple.

  ffmpeg -i input_file <deep-dark-magic-you-should-be-afraid-of> output_file

  Couldn’t be simpler.

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    -filter_complex sends its regards

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  • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That you don’t need to prepend output-file with -o but need(?) to do it with the input / -i weirds me out every time I use ffmpeg (which is a lot).

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    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No but that’s understandable- you can have any number of inputs (what’s the upper limit, I wonder) but everything goes into only one output…

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• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why learn when you can do what I do and look it up every single time you want to do something as though you are but a goldfish who learned to type?

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  • lauha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Humans are fish who learned to type. And on average pretty golden

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  • hraegsvelmir@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because you can improve and refine your technique. For example, I no longer need to open up duckduckgo to figure out what that one command was that worked for me 6 months ago. Now, I just type away. ctrl-r, ffmpeg, and bam, right there in my shell history, all I need to do is change the inputs and outputs.

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fr feels like its own programming language

  This is literally only for the ffmpeg filters 😅

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I fucking love the default video. Classic.

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    • blorgnis@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the video it pulled for cross-fade was fun too

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  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i have never seen this tool before and now i am forever in your debt

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    • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah you’re not. We’re Lemmy. Just pay it forward 😘

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• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.

  Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.

  But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.

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  • Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are many nice and FOSS GUIs for the tasks ffmpeg is usually used for.

    Handbrake is a great example for macOS, windows, Linux.

    For more advanced video compression Shutter Encoder is fantastic.

    Good old AVIDemux has a few other cool features as well, like cutting without reencoding.

    There are also a bunch of straight up ffmpeg front ends as well.

    Why do people use those shitty websites?

    They show up as a fast and easy option without having to research, download, install, and learn to use a more complicated application.

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For sure yeah.

      I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes! The picture is inaccurate, people who need to learn ffmpeg rarely know they do.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait until you hear that ffmpeg is available as a library, including for Python. And that there are Python modules providing Python-specific ways of specifying the processing filters and whatnot, instead of putting them into the single command string.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More like ffmpreg amirite?

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that the fork that converts regexes into mp4?

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• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Compress video to a broadly compatible format:

  ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 25 -preset slow -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k output.mp4
  

  This incantation is what I end up needing 99% of the time I do something with ffmpeg.

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  • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been a fan of libsvtav1 lately.

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    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I ran a comparison between libsvtav1 and h264 and h265 and found that libsvtav kinda sucks

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why learn ffmpeg when you can find the holy words that invokes the machine spirits transmutation codex and write them on your data slate to be used again later?

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• answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i cannot fix her. I’d let her read the wiki or just install canvas

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• LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where’s that madman that uses ffmpeg instead of cat

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Excuse me??

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do you need to learn ffmpeg

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wanting to do anything with video for one

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not true. You can:

      • create
      • delete
      • copy
      • move
      • spend an afternoon with windows movie maker
      • think you are creating but forgot to reinstall the sd card
      • upload youtube without any editing like a boss

      So many things you can do

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    • starchylemming@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      don’t let your dreams be dreams

      create that ffm pegging video

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  man

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two questions:

  1. Why?

  2. How?

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• Calfpupa@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where’s that one YouTube with the older Lady that explains ffmpeg

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