Ffmpeg – the Ultimate Guide

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The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg was shared, sparking a discussion on how LLMs can assist with complex FFmpeg commands, highlighting the tool's utility and the helpfulness of AI in navigating its options.

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michaelcampbell

4 months ago

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`ffmpeg` options are one thing that LLMs have helped me out a lot with. Tell it what I have, what I want, and more often than not the hieroglyphics that it spits out is the right set of options to use.

darkest_ruby

4 months ago

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Pro tip: feed ffprobe output to LLM for better results

euroderf

4 months ago

Wow, "ffprobe --help | wc" yields 2234 lines. Some kind of record?

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