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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This looks like something that I would find extremely cool if I had any idea what it was.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It basically converts videos between formats, standards of compression, encoders, subtitles, dimensions.... It's pretty useful for trimming the size of a video to fit a particular medium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What is the benefit to using this as opposed to just straight ffmpeg?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

As far as I know it is just an ffmpeg wrapper

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

In the days of DVDs, Blockbusters and Netflix sending out DVDs, this was mostly used to rip DVDs.