FFmpeg Does More Than Video

FFMPEG does so much more than just video encoding. I use ffmpeg all day every day, and only a fraction of the time do I actually make a video. Like what do you do? One can use it instead of cat to display text files. Easy syntax to remember. ffmpeg -v quiet -f data -i file.txt -map 0:0 -c text -f data -

A screenshot of a Reddit comment thread jokes about FFmpeg being useful for much more than video encoding. The punchline is that someone uses an absurdly complicated FFmpeg command as a replacement for the simple Unix cat command to display a text file, highlighting FFmpeg’s versatility and intimidating syntax. EN: A screenshot of a Reddit comment thread jokes about FFmpeg being useful for much more than video encoding. The punchline is that someone uses an absurdly complicated FFmpeg command as a replacement for the simple Unix cat command to display a text file, highlighting FFmpeg’s versatility and intimidating syntax.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 14086 2023-12-13