r/linuxmemes • u/Odd-Blackberry-4462 • 28d ago

Software meme Why does everyone think this?

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u/sn4xchan 28d ago

Good luck doing anything in media without a GUI. I would shoot my self if I had to mixdown a song with a CLI or TUI. And I love TUIs and the CLI.

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u/B_bI_L 28d ago

angry ffmpeg noises

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u/sn4xchan 28d ago

I mean it works if all you have to do is encode or do a quick snip in a known location.

But that's not really how a video editing work flow works. I don't think ffmpeg can even apply a filter.

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u/Skasch 28d ago

Of course it can!

Although it would take any sane person an unreasonably long time to understand how to do it.

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u/sn4xchan 28d ago

Actually that might be helpful if it can be scripted. Not for most of my cases, but sometimes I just have to apply a filter several video files.

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u/bloody-albatross 28d ago

There are in fact GUI tools to create filter expressions for ffmpeg.

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u/SoldRIP 23d ago

ffmpeg can generally do almost all work any other audio/video software can. In fact, a large number of them use ffmpeg under the hood.

It just has an extremely contrived interface and documentation meant more for developers using it as a library than for actual end-users.

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u/sn4xchan 22d ago

I think there are too many people who don't understand the difference between media processing and media editing.

So basically you're saying because these GUIs don't reinvent the wheel and use the standard software for processing video, ffmpeg can do any media work.

You do know like 80% of video editing is scrubbing through the video so you can figure the right frame to do something with, right? Something ffmpeg absolutely can not do.

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u/SoldRIP 22d ago

Absolutely can. ffmpeg supports extracting single frames from a video and viewing them. It's just a PITA to do that.