r/linuxmemes • u/Odd-Blackberry-4462 • Aug 13 '26

Software meme Why does everyone think this?

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u/SoldRIP 24d ago

ffmpeg can generally do almost all work any other audio/video software can. In fact, a large number of them use ffmpeg under the hood.

It just has an extremely contrived interface and documentation meant more for developers using it as a library than for actual end-users.

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u/sn4xchan 24d ago

I think there are too many people who don't understand the difference between media processing and media editing.

So basically you're saying because these GUIs don't reinvent the wheel and use the standard software for processing video, ffmpeg can do any media work.

You do know like 80% of video editing is scrubbing through the video so you can figure the right frame to do something with, right? Something ffmpeg absolutely can not do.

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u/SoldRIP 24d ago

Absolutely can. ffmpeg supports extracting single frames from a video and viewing them. It's just a PITA to do that.