Why learn ffmpeg when you can find the holy words that invokes the machine spirits transmutation codex and write them on your data slate to be used again later?
i cannot fix her. I’d let her read the wiki or just install canvas
It’s very simple.
ffmpeg -i input_file <deep-dark-magic-you-should-be-afraid-of> output_fileCouldn’t be simpler.
That you don’t need to prepend output-file with -o but need(?) to do it with the input / -i weirds me out every time I use ffmpeg (which is a lot).
No but that’s understandable- you can have any number of inputs (what’s the upper limit, I wonder) but everything goes into only one output…
Ah, ok? So anything after an -i is an input but the last thing is always the output so ot doesn’t need a mark? Interesting.
Pretty much!
I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.
Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.
But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.
Why learn when you can do what I do and look it up every single time you want to do something as though you are but a goldfish who learned to type?
Humans are fish who learned to type. And on average pretty golden
fr feels like its own programming language
This is literally only for the ffmpeg filters 😅
