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by HAL9OOO 1333 days ago
This is a godsend considering I'm just starting an FFMPEG project right now. Do you have any other resources you recommend to fully grasp FFMPEG and even what it's capable of? This website is awesome btw!
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practice practice practice. if you're using ffmpeg as a one of project, then you'll never grok it. if you're using ffmpeg as a daily tool doing many things, you'll almost start to think you grok it, but then still learn something new about it. whatever your current need of ffmpeg is right now, it is probably such a small subset of what it can do that you'll forever be amazed at what other people are doing with it.

if you're stuck on something and can't find an answer, keep trying to rephrase your question. i'd put money down that it is highly unlikely you are the first person attempting whatever you are doing, and it is very likely someone else has had issues like you.

sometimes, searching for the exact error message isn't as useful as one would hope, but with enough time you'll start to recognize how/why those errors are what ffmpeg is struggling with but it is actually something related that you need to address.

hopping on to this - i'm interested in doing my own audio waveforms, but the only documentation on this I can find is https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Waveform

wondering if theres a standard set of tooling for creating audio waveform videos?