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I just use LLMs to help me with ffmpeg (and many other similarly complex tools) commands: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme

    $ helpme ffmpeg capture video from /dev/video0 every 1 second and write to .jpg files like img00000.jpg, img00001.jpg, ...
    $ helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse video at 8fps
    $ helpme ffmpeg recompress myvideo.mp4 for HTML5-friendly use and save the result as myvideo_out.webm
I know there are full blown AI terminals like Warp but I didn't like the idea of a terminal app requiring a login, possibly sending all my commands to a server, etc. and just wanted a script that only calls the cloud AI when I ask it to.


Yea agreed, these kinds of websites feel obsolete now with LLMs. I just tried a couple in ChatGPT and it worked flawlessly.


Where do you think the LLMs get their ffmpeg commands from?


Uh, probably the man page for the CLI and the official documentation at https://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html




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