qbow883

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How to Cheat on Video Encoder Comparisons (2010)(web.archive.org)
2 points by qbow883 7mo ago|0 comments
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by qbow883 9mo ago
But the chances of you being able to achieve the same with the linked tool are also zero. That's all I am really saying. I'm not arguing that ffmpeg can get very complex (I was talking about "basic" ffmpeg usage in my or
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by qbow883 9mo ago
Thank you, this explains my thoughts really well.
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by qbow883 9mo ago
Yes, absolutely. Multimedia is complicated. But my issue with the linked tool is that it does none of the things you mentioned. All it does it make already very easy things even easier. Is it really that much harder to remember `ffmpeg -i
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What you need to know before touching a video file(gist.github.com)
376 points by qbow883 9mo ago|245 comments
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by qbow883 9mo ago
> Not really sure how else I was supposed to interpret your comment Yes, that was a bit facetious of me, I apologize for that. > What is so bad about the existence of this project? Being very blunt: The fact that it reinforces the ex
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by qbow883 9mo ago
I'm not saying it couldn't be better (and I even gave examples), my point is that the drawbacks of such a wrapper outweigh the benefits, at least when it's such an oversimplified one. I've said in other replies how I&#x2
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by qbow883 9mo ago
> Is it -c:v or -v:c? Sure, I agree with all of this. Like I said above, the syntax (and, even more, the defaults) isn't great. I'm just arguing that "improving the syntax" should not mean "hiding complexity that
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by qbow883 9mo ago
I do, yes. Though that's not really the point, it'd already be enough to know where to look it up.
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by qbow883 9mo ago
Yes, I am not opposed to ffmpeg wrappers in and of themselves. Some decent ffmpeg wrappers definitely exist. But I argue in my comment above that this specific tool does not have better QoL - again, since it reencodes unconditionally wi
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by qbow883 9mo ago
Days since last ffmpeg CLI wrapper: 0 It's incredible what lengths people go to to avoid memorizing basic ffmpeg usage. It's really not that hard, and the (F.) manual explains the basic concepts fairly well. Now, granted, ffmpeg&#
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by qbow883 9mo ago
Because the linked article is from 2013.
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by qbow883 9mo ago
Setting aside the various formatting problems and the LLM writing style, this just seems all kinds of wrong throughout. > “Just lower the bitrate,” you say. Great idea. Now it’s 10Mbps of blocky garbage that’s still 30 seconds behind. 10