Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "FFmpeg in 100 Seconds" video.

  1. Yes, but Autodesk has by far the bigger advertising budget. Telling people how wonderful you are tends to count for more than actually putting out a superior product.
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  2. I’ve never felt the need to use the C API. One project I did involved extracting telemetry data (accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS) from videos captured from GoPro cameras. I wrote a Python script which called ffprobe to identify the right streams and the exact locations of the data packets and their timestamps, then I could read those parts of the video file directly and decode the packets using the standard “struct” library.
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  3. Google’s Play Store actually banned an app using this library, supposedly for violating the “Sexual Content and Profanity Policy”.
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  4. Just a note that, to get the most out of FFmpeg, you have to build it yourself. This lets you enable certain options together that have incompatible licences (e.g. non-free + GPL), so the result ends up as “unredistributable”.
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  5.  @jonathanalonso6492  Point-and-click maybe OK for one-off tasks, not so good for things you need to do a hundred times a day. Then you discover that GUIs cannot be automated.
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  6. I have experimented with using melt. This lets you create an XML control file that defines all the edits. It uses FFmpeg underneath anyway.
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  7. Those over-complicated, bloated, borderline-useless and paywalled tools are targeted at Windows users who have no idea about command lines.
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  8. Having created your edit list, this is the sort of engine you could use to render out the final video.
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  9. Best left in a museum.
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  10.  @ThatOneRobloxDev  Not worth using any more. If you want a stack-based language, PostScript still has some interesting features worth redeeming. FORTH ... none.
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  11. Submit a patch.
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  12. Different parts have different licences. You can build it without any non-free parts.
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  13.  @matthewboyer4212  Depends on whether you prefer a licence that guarantees the same rights to the recipient of the software that the giver has, or not.
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  14.  @matthewboyer4212  Copyleft has been described as a kind of “copyright jiu-jitsu”, where you use your adversary’s strength against him.
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  15.  @matthewboyer4212  I would. And I’m not the only one. Linus Torvalds said deciding to release the Linux kernel under the GPL was the best decision he ever made. You don’t like it, you know what you can do.
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  16.  @matthewboyer4212  ∗Yawn∗
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  17.  @matthewboyer4212  Like I said, you know what you can do.
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  18.  @jonathanalonso6492  The successful businesses are the ones that produce quality results. Are you really going to pay for someone to perform a manual process over and over? Automation is what computers are for!
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  19. I think you have to concat each stream independently, then combine them.
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  20. That “unix philosophy” is a half-truth. People use it to attack things they don’t like.
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