[oefrha]

> 8 liner with 25 arguments

That’s tame for FFmpeg, likely just specifying a bunch of encoder parameters the simpler command left out for defaults, maybe with some input/output streams explicitly spelled out. If you want to look at really incomprehensible FFmpeg commands, try anything with filtergraphs.

[maupin]

Too true! For a recent video project I wrote a 300 line bash script to generate the ffmpeg arguments needed to accomplish what I was after.