There probably actually isn’t an alternative. Whatever piece of software you might otherwise use to encode or convert video is probably using ffmpeg behind the scenes anyway.
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dvlsg@lemmy.world 11 months agoffmpeg is where my mind went. It’s so good I don’t even know what the alternative is.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
For images (it can process images as well) imagemagick is used.