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Dependencies
A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.
I've been so frustrated that FFprobe functionality is not part of FFmpeg.
My app extracts screenshots from videos to create a beautiful gallery of videos. But even though I include FFmpeg already, I need a 50mb FFprobe executable to be bundled with my app just so that I can determine the width, height, duration, and fps of a video file! What is it that FFprobe does that FFmpeg couldn't do with a few extra pieces of exposed API?
https://videohubapp.com/ - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/772b25bbd4b41...
Even given an option it can be difficult to find the corresponding documentation, if only because of the many different submodules and encoders and decoders and filters that have o-so-slightly different options. That said, I've just switched from pydub to ffmpeg-python (due to memory issues of the former[1]) and judging from the Jupiter notebook[2] it seems a much more intuitive method of constructing ffmpeg pipelines.
[1] https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/135
[2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/tree/master/examp...
Even given an option it can be difficult to find the corresponding documentation, if only because of the many different submodules and encoders and decoders and filters that have o-so-slightly different options. That said, I've just switched from pydub to ffmpeg-python (due to memory issues of the former[1]) and judging from the Jupiter notebook[2] it seems a much more intuitive method of constructing ffmpeg pipelines.
[1] https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/135
[2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/tree/master/examp...
It exists only as a patch from Intel (https://github.com/intel/cartwheel-ffmpeg/blob/master/patche...) but I haven't seen any efforts to upstream it yet.
The manpages are good! I don't use ffmpeg too frequently so, to help myself, I made a cheatsheet (which I update whenever I do something new)
https://github.com/elamperti/dotfiles/blob/master/docs/ffmpe...
("Dependencies" is Dependencies.exe from https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies)