Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago

FaaS: Ffmpeg as a service, wrap the most used 30 patterns of ffmpeg into a web page and slap a subscription in front of it.

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago

Get VC funding: “it is Uber for ffmpeg command line options”

alex, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza That’s ten on a fifty pre right there.

Lobrien, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza VC: narrowing eyes Could we… use a transformer for that?

Miguel: slaps hood You can fit so many layers in this bad boy!

Cmastication, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza ffmpeg was designed by folks who thought regex was intuitive and trivial (once you understand the obvious logic and a few basic primitives)

erraggy, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza
VCs? You need to also also on some of that sweet sweet AI

nickzoic, 10 months ago

@erraggy @Migueldeicaza Ffmpeg-GPT.

The only problem with this is it might actually work.

Paxxi, 10 months ago

@nickzoic @erraggy @Migueldeicaza to use AI on it you already need to know all the options to verify or you'll probably end up with a watermark of crypto in your videos 😀

bcamper, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza I am not even kidding someone once DM’ed me about their startup to simplify ffmpeg command line options

mako, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza basically metube (but add in a sub).

hub, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza isn't that what handbrake does?

johnsheehan, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza Mux

jamesgecko, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza I‘ve absolutely seen this for some CLI tool. I thought it was ffmpeg; it might have been ImageMagick.

nholzschuch, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza I think that one already exists.

badlogic, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza that's what ChatGPT does for me when I need to ffmpeg my shizzle.

Paxxi, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza isn't this basically what tools like handbrake are?

pepita, 10 months ago

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Paxxi, 10 months ago

@pepita @Migueldeicaza my memory is that it had some profiles that did a good job of "just working"

joonaslehtinen, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza not anymore: everyone (with their GPT-4 buddy) is an ffmpeg expert nowadays…

orj, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza that is basically what https://shotstack.io is.

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago

@orj shit, all my good ideas are taken!

jamie, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza
So, they shouldn't just slap another option in there every time there is an edge case? Huh...

slembcke, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza Every time I think “there must be some simple video utility for (thing)”, I spend time looking for one, give up, then spend less time searching for the ffmpeg incantation to do it instead. >_<

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago

@slembcke you inspired two follow
Up toots

otherust, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza the large amount of similar named options is because of its modularity, each codec has its own set of settings.

jwz, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza My wrapper for ffmpeg and imagemagick to more easily do the things that I most often want to do: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/resize.pl

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago

@jwz instabookmarked - also, it feels good to not be alone writing Perl in a world of Ruby and Python

ottobackwards, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza @jwz if you guys and @siracusa do a pod about perl I win my social media bingo, please look into it

mtothevizzah, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza "If there is an entire software ecosystem of frontends to your tool, you may want to rethink your approach."

RoyBrander, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza

I got mad at my cableco and went with Over-the-Air TV for news and basic shows. Digital HDTV OTA sucks up over sixteen GB per hour, because it uses the same MPEG-2 as the early 90s, not even the MPEG-4 that satellite TV uses.

So I have "hdhomerun" which was invented on Linux, on my Linux server serving out the files with Samba.

And for most shows, a script FFMPEGs those giant files down to <10% size, by night. At a choice of qualities (15%=Very good).

It's awesome.

jamesbritt, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza I've a set of ruby and .bat scripts to do the common stuff.

grin, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza ever heard of 'git'? 😕

felix, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza Git: „hold my beer“

_hic_haec_hoc, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza and it was worse before they switched to the new avconv-style flags

DavidNielsen, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza at least the documentation is rather impressive, which sets it apart of other projects where a billion flags are present.

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago

@DavidNielsen that is good, yes.

BartWronski, 10 months ago

@Migueldeicaza Only ChatGPT made it usable for me - but now, I love it :)