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Re:Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by F... by luckman212 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:21PM (#24891896)
why are you redirecting stderr? does `man ffmpeg` produce error output on your system?

anyway, on my system (macOS, ffmpeg 4.3.1 from Homebrew) the situation is even more dire:

    $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
    38738
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Re:Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by F... by mkl on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:56AM (#24893767)
On my system (Kubuntu 20.04) man/troff produces errors when its output is redirected:

  $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
  troff: <standard input>:6148: warning [p 42, 3.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:6150: warning [p 42, 3.7i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:11396: warning [p 68, 8.7i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:11398: warning [p 68, 9.2i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:13562: warning [p 79, 6.0i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:13564: warning [p 79, 6.5i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:26366: warning [p 132, 17.2i]: can't break line
  troff: <standard input>:38313: warning [p 174, 27.5i]: can't break line
  33160
No idea what it means.
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