Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k in the last 4 months

Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by alwayslikethis on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:56PM (#39993765)

I don't think ffmpeg is actually _extremely_ complex. A lot of the complexity (all the flags) you feel belonging to ffmpeg actually belongs to encoders (libx264, libx265, aomenc, libvpx, all the hardware encoders from each vendor). They each have various options meaning different things. ffmpeg is just an interface for them.

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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by duskwuff on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:12PM (#39993945)

And it's a genuinely complex problem space. ffmpeg supports some pretty wild audio/video transformations, especially once you start getting into filter graphs (e.g. combining multiple audio/video streams into a single output); its command-line interface reflects that complexity.

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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by ta1243 on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:41AM (#39999847)

That's fair, although the stuff I can do with ffmpeg filters amazes me, and I barely scratch the surface

I tend to include the codec developers in the "ffmpeg developers" for simplicity as there are many that work in both areas.

The complexity in using those codecs isn't the ffmpeg command line, it's knowing which options to use.

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