kawsper17 minutes ago
I asked about this tool 3 days ago, HN is a magical place! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363432
sorenjan3 hours ago
I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue.
What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.
ramon1562 hours ago
I don't find Sharing files with people very difficult, just login to your FTP and give an account to another user. - Person commenting on OneDrive
sorenjan2 hours ago
Missed opportunity to reference the famous Dropbox hn comment.
I just think there are other closely related use cases where a separate program can add more value, especially in the terminal. I wouldn't suggest most people should use ffmpeg instead of a gui, those are too dissimilar. Another example is cutting out a part of a video, with ffmpeg you need to make two temporary videos and then concatenate them, that process would greatly benefit from a better ux.
tptacekan hour ago
Point of order: the Dropbox HN comment is famously misconstrued. People think it was about Dropbox; it was about the Dropbox YC application, and was both well-intentioned and constructive.
gyanan hour ago
> with ffmpeg you need to make two temporary videos and then concatenate them
It can be done in a single command, no temp files needed.
hiccuphippo2 hours ago
I used a plugin in mpv to do it but I can't find it anymore. You just pressed a key to mark the start and end. And with . and , you could do it at keyframe resolution not just seconds.
justo32an hour ago
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tptacek3 hours ago
This is very cool. I built one of these myself around Christmas; Claude Code can put one together in just a couple prompts (this is also how I worked out how to have Claude test TUIs with tmux). What was striking about my finished product --- which is much less slick than this --- was how much of the heavy lifting was just working out which arguments to pass to ffmpeg.
It's surprisingly handy to have something like this hanging around; I just use mine to fix up screen caps.
Commenting mostly because when I did this I thought I was doing something very silly, and I'm glad I'm not completely crazy.
ariym5 hours ago
I think this is the first instance I've seen of an actual terminal video player. Very fun to play with.
mikkupikku3 hours ago
mplayer, mpv and I think VLC can do it, with the right output driver settings (libcaca or a few other choices.)
tptacek3 hours ago
You can just use ffmpeg to extract frames, and then just render the raw images with unicode blocks.
(There's Kitty Graphics too, but I couldn't figure out how to make terminal UI layout work with it.)
chadrs3 hours ago
yeah I remember learning this trick in like 2007 with libaa and later caca for color.
It looks like this app is shelling out to ffmpeg to get the bitmap of a frame and then shelling to something called chafa to covert to nice terminal-friendly video.
chris_va33 minutes ago
Invoking ffmpeg, gzip and tar commands is a sort of reverse Turing test for LLMs
noiv32 minutes ago
On MacOs I just press space and trim with finder. Even avoids re-compressing.
mhuffman2 hours ago
I have been using this one[0] and it is small, fast, and seems to work pretty great for me so far.
Acrobatic_Road36 minutes ago
Could have really used this a couple days ago. I had to record a video an assignment, but due to lack of global hotkeys on OBS with wayland, I had to start and stop the video on the OBS GUI. I tried to figure out ffmpeg but I was too tired and it was getting close to the deadline so I spent some time learning how to to do it with kdenlive.
bfrjjrhfbf3 hours ago
Having to separately download ffmpeg in the windows distribution does not really make sense
Just bundle it
ftchdan hour ago
People that use GUIs/tools for things like ffmpeg, rclone etc really want the developer to autodetect if they have it already, and use that instead of installing a separate version/binary.
How do I know? I built one (https://github.com/rclone-ui/rclone-ui)
sorenjan3 hours ago
I disagree, I don't want another ffmpeg binary, I already have one. Winget works well, especially since this is already a terminal program.
karlosvomacka3 hours ago
afaik winget can automatically manage package dependencies.
faangguyindia4 hours ago
I've been using ffmpeg with claude as video editor for long time.
hsuduebc22 hours ago
You mean you let create claude command or it itself runs ffmpeg on your local machine and returns you finished cut?
mandeepj4 hours ago
I guess I can find another implementation to combine trimmed parts after taking out certain scenes?
hiccuphippo3 hours ago
Write a text file with all the parts like this:
file 'file1.mp4'
file 'file2.mp4'
file 'file3.mp4'
ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -c copy output.mp4