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> Why is it so hard to read the manual

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Let's be honest, it kinda sucks. The commands are barely explained it feels more left as an exercise for the reader to do the puzzle solving of whats trying to be communicated.

Honestly if these processing chain diagrams just had a rollover where if you roll over parts of the command or the block in the chain and the other part highlighted with a description of what the switch was actually doing then a lot more people would be able to understand this, especially if real world before and after examples of outputs were included.

Instead it's <diagram of the chain> <raw string of the command> "Note: one caveat about something"