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Comment by qingcharles

5 hours ago

One of the best uses of LLMs is to help find the right command line options for tools like ffmpeg.

It won't always give you a perfect answer the first time, but it's much better than memorizing the manual or interpreting a forum discussion. Haven't used it for ffmpeg, but lots of other command lines.

  • I find it helps if you paste in the the ffmpeg manual and get the ai to use that as source. Helps it stick to real params.

  • Because ffmpeg is built on the Unix chained utility philosophy I find ai is also good at building scripts the use it as well