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by CyberDildonics 804 days ago
ffmpeg is a lot more than just a wrapper on libraries. It can do a lot of filtering and rewiring of audio channels, video channels and subtitles.

Handbrake doesn't do any of that. You can't even drag a bunch of audio files on to handbrake because handbrake doesn't do audio, while ffmpeg is great for encoding audio.
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mort96 804 days ago
What I'm saying is that ffmpeg is the libraries. When you use the ffmpeg CLI to filter and rewrite audio, the ffmpeg command is just decoding it using a decoder in libavcodec, filtering using a filter from libavfilter, and encoding again using an encoder from libavcodec. The ffmpeg CLI is "just" an interface for the libraries.

The fact that Handbrake doesn't expose the same features as the ffmpeg CLI tool is frankly irrelevant.

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CyberDildonics 804 days ago
The fact that Handbrake doesn't expose the same features as the ffmpeg CLI tool is frankly irrelevant.

It's not just relevant, it's the whole thing. They asked for an ffmpeg GUI and someone recommended a GUI that doesn't use ffmpeg and doesn't do what ffmpeg can do. ffmpeg can not only rewire channels, it can stream video, capture video from the screen, capture video from a tv tuner, overlay text etc.

Also the libraries you listed are part of the ffmpeg project. They come from ffmpeg.

https://ffmpeg.org/about.html

Also they asked for a GUI to ffmpeg, not necessarily a GUI to the command line tool.

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ranger_danger 804 days ago
to be fair, I have never seen a GUI that could do everything its complex command-line equivalent could do, that wasn't, in the end, just simpler and easier to use the command-line in the first place. so when people ask for "a GUI", I think a lot more information is needed about what it should be able to do.
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mort96 804 days ago
Handbrake does use ffmpeg. My whole point is that the libraries are ffmpeg, so I don't understand why you're saying it back to me.

Gah. I give up.

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CyberDildonics 804 days ago
Handbrake isn't a GUI for all of ffmpeg, it does a very limited set of what ffmpeg can do.
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mort96 804 days ago
Never argued otherwise. Specifically, the thing I'm saying is wrong is:

> someone recommended a GUI that doesn't use ffmpeg

Handbrake uses ffmpeg.

But I recognize your username. I don't remember from where but I remember reading or having a conversation with you which went nowhere. I think I'm done.

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CyberDildonics 804 days ago
Using ffmpeg for one thing doesn't mean a GUI is a GUI for all of ffmpeg.
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