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FFmpeg 8.0

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985 points gyan | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.266s | source
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JSR_FDED ◴[22 Aug 25 23:25 UTC] No.44991189[source]▶
Tangentially, 50% of effort goes into assembling long complex CLI commands, and 50% fighting with escaping for the shell. Adding text to a video adds it’s own escaping hell for the text.

Has anyone found a bulletproof recipe for calling ffmpeg with many args (filters) from python? Use r-strings? Heredocs?

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1. edge17 ◴[23 Aug 25 00:55 UTC] No.44991866[source]▶
Agree with this, but I think LLM's have been a net positive in helping generate commands? Admittedly, getting working commands is still tough sometimes, and i'm 50/50 on whether ChatGPT saved me time vs reading docs.