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985 points gyan | 4 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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Culonavirus ◴[22 Aug 25 15:39 UTC] No.44985906[source]▶
> incantation

FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

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Keyframe ◴[22 Aug 25 15:43 UTC] No.44985969[source]▶
with gemini-cli and claude-cli you can now prompt while it prompts ffmpeg, and it does work.
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1. profsummergig ◴[22 Aug 25 16:57 UTC] No.44986872[source]▶
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?

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2. RedShift1 ◴[22 Aug 25 17:12 UTC] No.44987054[source]▶
Yes. It works amazingly well for ffmpeg.
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3. profsummergig ◴[22 Aug 25 17:14 UTC] No.44987079[source]▶
Thank you.
4. logicalmind ◴[22 Aug 25 20:14 UTC] No.44989276[source]▶
Another option is to use a non-cli LLM and ask it to produce a script (bash/ps1) that uses ffmpeg to do X, Y, and Z to your video files. If using a chat LLM it will often provide suggestions or ask questions to improve your processing as well. I do this often and the results are quite good.