Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
by foodevl on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:06AM
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> > some folks want to use lossless cut
> In that case I would encourage you to ruminate on what the following in the post you're replying to means and what the implications are:
You may have misunderstood the comment: "lossless cut" is the name of an ffmpeg GUI front end. They're not discussing which exact command line gives lossless results.
Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
by wpm on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:08AM
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The thing is that when a video is being re-encoded, so long as I'm not trying to play games on my computer at the same time, I'm free to go do something else. It does not command any of my attention while its working, whereas sitting and reading the man pages commands my attention absolutely.
Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
by Forgeties79 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:22AM
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As the other person said (and this is my mistake for not capitalizing), Lossless Cut is a popular CLI wrapper for ffmpeg with a (somewhat) intuitive interface. Someone is going to be able to pick up and use that a lot faster than they are ffmpeg. I think a lot of folks forget how daunting most people find using a terminal, yet a lot of those people still want something to do a simple lossless trim of an existing video or some other little tweak. It’s good that they have both options (and more).
Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
by leephillips on Saturday December 27, 2025 @12:41PM
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Looks like a GUI wrapper in fact, no?
Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
by Forgeties79 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @12:57PM
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Yes thank you I can get a little clumsy with my acronyms. Downside of not being a proper coder/engineer!
Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
by leephillips on Saturday December 27, 2025 @01:03PM
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No problem. I only asked because if there were a CLI version I wanted to know about it.
> some folks want to use lossless cut
In that case I would encourage you to ruminate on what the following in the post you're replying to means and what the implications are:
> "ff convert video.mkv to mp4" (an extremely common usecase) maps to `ffmpeg -i video.mkv -y video.mp4` here, which does a full reencode (losing quality and wasting time) for what can usually just be a simple remux
Depending on the size of the video, the time it would take you to "do the job swiftly" (i.e. not caring about how the tools you are using actually work) might be more than just reading the ffmpeg manual, or at the very least searching for some command examples.