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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by CharlesW on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:43PM (#39995508)
> …you can do all this with just FFMPEG, but now you have to wade through all the docs, flags, values to craft your CLI args with a bit of trial and error. The value add here is a coherent front-end that abstracts away all the complexity and lets you cut right to what you want.

Very true, but just want to note that ChatGPT is also great at creating CLI input for ffmpeg, yt-dlp, etc. And of course, Handbrake remains the O.G. for open source, cross-platform video encoding.

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