75$/year subscribtion model for a graphical user interface.. In contrast Total Commander for life costs 39€ + tax.
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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I find asking ChatGPT works for lots of ffmpeg uses. Maybe mine are simple when compared to other contexts though…
Yes, ChatGPT's greatest strength for me is as a man parser. This is especially helpful for tools that do a bajillion things like ffmpeg. Just finding the relevant parts of the manual can take a prohibitively long time.
Expensive UI lol
But part of the fun of FFmpeg is spending two days trying to figure out how to get it to do what you are trying to do.
When writing my filtergraphs, I've found the following three "tricks" to be immensely helpful
- Use an actual editor. Fish shell has a keybind that opens the current prompt in your
$EDITOR, and saving+quitting returns to the editor. Makes multi line ffmpeg filters trivial. Doubly so if your editor has something like TabNine completions - If that's not enough, write the filter in a dedicated file, and use either editor automation or something like entr to run ffmpeg's graph2dot command and then graphviz to get a visualization of said graph. Helps ferret out bugs
- Build up more complex graphs using either ffplay or mpv. You can add filters at runtime to mpv via the repl (press ~) and the
vf addcommand