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by Paianni 1053 days ago
Probably the biggest barrier to ffmpeg adoption is all the offline 'freemium' and web frontends, the host sites for which have been SEO'd for phrases people commonly put into Google like "avi to mp4", "mp3 to wav", etc..

It took me more time than I wish it did to become open to using CLI apps, the Windows world had taught me to expect a GUI for everything.

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I thought most of those file conversion sites were just ffmpeg on top of nginx or something?
They almost certainly are, cli is not always the best interface but ffmpeg covers such a wide swath of video utilities that I’m not sure how you could include all of its functionality in a GUI.