
Aren’t humans the best people? Machines will do our work for us… Fortunately there’s someone who does it for you, for nothing - the wonderful Zeranoe. That’s a whole pile of tedium that you don’t need.

Just making sure you’ve got the build environment working properly is a full time job, and if you’re paid to be a video nerd you don’t want to be mucking around with minGW and Cygwin and so on.

And building it on windows is a royal pain. The down side is that since ffmpeg is distributed as source code you need to build it.

The up side is that you get to learn the command line. For those who came in late, ffmpeg is the best reason for a video nerd to learn the command line.įor every question: “is it possible to automatically do x to some video?”, or “ I have 10,000 video files in format y, I want to convert them to format z, is that possible in my lifetime?”, the answer is usually: yes, you can do it with ffmpeg.
