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		nine_k on Jan 15, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FFmpeg by Example I do it the old way: I write down the commands as a shell script, and reuse later. But really what ffmpeg is missing is an expressive language to describe its operation. Something well-structured, like what jq does for JSON.

skydhash on Jan 15, 2025 [–]

It already does. It’s the cli flags. What you’re missing is the semantic which you can get with learning about containers, codecs, and other stuff. You don’t use grep and sed with no understanding of what a text file is.

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