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FFmpeg 8.0

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985 points gyan | 5 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.709s | source
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pmarreck ◴[22 Aug 25 15:35 UTC] No.44985875[source]▶
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.)

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1. agys ◴[22 Aug 25 16:11 UTC] No.44986323[source]▶
LLMs and complex command line tools like FFmpeg and ImageMagick are a perfect combination and work like magic…

It’s really the dream UI/UX from sience fiction movies: “take all images from this folder and crop 100px away except on top, saturate a bit and save them as uncompressed tiffs in this new folder, also assemble them in a video loop, encode for web”.

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2. Barrin92 ◴[22 Aug 25 16:29 UTC] No.44986523[source]▶
it can work but it's far from science fiction. LLMs tend to produce extremely subpar if not buggy ffmpeg code. They'll routinely do things like put the file parameter before the start time which needlessly decodes the entire video, produce wrong bitrates, re-encode audio needlessly, and so on.

If you don't care enough about potential side effects to read the manual it's fine, but a dream UX it is not because I'd argue that includes correctness.

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3. xandrius ◴[22 Aug 25 16:30 UTC] No.44986533[source]▶
Had to do exactly that with a bunch of screenshots I took but happened to include a bunch of unnecessary parts of the screen.

A prompt to ChatGPT and a command later and all were nicely cropped in a second.

The dread of doing it by hand and having it magically there a minute later is absolutely mind blowing. Even just 5 years ago, I would have just done it manually as it would have definitely taken more to write the code for this task.

4. euroderf ◴[22 Aug 25 17:47 UTC] No.44987437[source]▶
Are you accusing Blade Runner of infringing FFmpeg IP ?
5. amenhotep ◴[22 Aug 25 19:06 UTC] No.44988548[source]▶
ffmpeg -i in -ss start -to end out is wrong and bad? You can -ss before -i? TIL!