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985 points gyan | 6 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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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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Culonavirus ◴[22 Aug 25 15:39 UTC] No.44985906[source]▶
> incantation

FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

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1. mrandish ◴[22 Aug 25 16:35 UTC] No.44986587[source]▶
I'd also include Regex in the list of dark arts incantations.
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2. RedShift1 ◴[22 Aug 25 17:01 UTC] No.44986921[source]▶
I'm ok with regex, but the ffmpeg manpage, it scares me...
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3. zvr ◴[22 Aug 25 19:18 UTC] No.44988701[source]▶
I am perfectly at home with regexp, but ffmpeg, magick, and jq are still on the list to master.
4. quectophoton ◴[22 Aug 25 19:57 UTC] No.44989101[source]▶
Ffmpeg was designed to be unusable if it falls into enemy hands.
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5. lukeschlather ◴[23 Aug 25 19:31 UTC] No.44998486[source]▶
Regex is only difficult because it's complicated, the primitives are all sensibly arranged and predictable. FFmpeg is layers of dark magic where the primitives are often inscrutable before you compose them.
6. falloon ◴[24 Aug 25 19:53 UTC] No.45007175{3}[source]▶
I defer understanding FFMPEG arguments to the LLMs.