FFmpeg 8.0

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.)

> incantation

FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

nope, that would be handling tar balls

ffmpeg right after

I have so much of tar memorized. cpio is super funky to me, though.

cpio is not that hard.

A common use case is:

  $ cpio -pdumv args 

See:

  $ man cpio 

and here is an example from its Wikipedia page, under the "Operation and archive format" section, under the Copy subsection:

Copy

Cpio supports a third type of operation which copies files. It is initiated with the pass-through option flag (p). This mode combines the copy-out and copy-in steps without actually creating any file archive. In this mode, cpio reads path names on standard input like the copy-out operation, but instead of creating an archive, it recreates the directories and files at a different location in the file system, as specified by the path given as a command line argument.

This example copies the directory tree starting at the current directory to another path new-path in the file system, preserving files modification times (flag m), creating directories as needed (d), replacing any existing files unconditionally (u), while producing a progress listing on standard output (v):

$ find . -depth -print | cpio -p -dumv new-path