Why learn ffmpeg when you can find the holy words that invokes the machine spirits transmutation codex and write them on your data slate to be used again later?

I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.

Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.

But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.

More like ffmpreg amirite?

Where’s that madman that uses ffmpeg instead of cat

Why learn when you can do what I do and look it up every single time you want to do something as though you are but a goldfish who learned to type?

Why do you need to learn ffmpeg