[technoplato]

I anticipate some much more savvy than myself saying this wrapper is unnecessary as you can do all of this “easily” with ffmpeg. I welcome tools like this that have a more common user in mind, evidenced immediately in the beginning of the README with common use cases.

Ffmpegs documentation on the other hand forces me to feel as though it’s normal to assume knowledge about a point in a video and what it means if my encoders are different from input to output.

[timc3]

Even if what the abstraction is doing is not really the best way of doing things?

For example not the best - re-encoding video or audio tracks when it could just copy them, picking the defaults when their is a better quality option?

Video and audio processing is one of things that if you want good results with wide flexibility you have to learn it and also try things out.

[jahlove]

I consider myself pretty savvy and have used ffmpeg many times over the years. I struggle through it like hell every time. I'd gladly use something like this.

[handol]

> Ffmpegs documentation

    ffplay --help

8826 lines

[mkl]

That's ffplay.

  $ man ffmpeg-all 2> /dev/null | wc -l
  33160

[luckman212]

why are you redirecting stderr? does `man ffmpeg` produce error output on your system?

anyway, on my system (macOS, ffmpeg 4.3.1 from Homebrew) the situation is even more dire:

    $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
    38738

[mkl]

On my system (Kubuntu 20.04) man/troff produces errors when its output is redirected:

  $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
  troff: <standard input>:6148: warning [p 42, 3.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:6150: warning [p 42, 3.7i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:11396: warning [p 68, 8.7i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:11398: warning [p 68, 9.2i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:13562: warning [p 79, 6.0i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:13564: warning [p 79, 6.5i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:26366: warning [p 132, 17.2i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:38313: warning [p 174, 27.5i]: can't break line
  33160

No idea what it means.

[rezonant]

oh sweet summer child