Am 05.01.2016 um 15:43 schrieb Phil Rhodes:
I think in general a lot of problems with commandline software in general exist 
when the software begins to exceed the ability of a commandline to act as a 
workable UI.
Naturally there are reasons to provide serialised instructions to a piece of 
software, but in many cases that isn't really intended as a user interface, 
it's intended as an API. The discoverability of a CLI is near zero, and the 
lack of examples in the documentation doesn't help.
For many tasks, software with as many complexities as ffmpeg desperately needs 
a GUI

thinking one can develop a GUI which is usable and supports all of the features of ffmpeg or even a large part of them is naive - it would be a completly weird application with a million dropdowns nobody understands how they work together depending of mediatypes or just support a small piece of ffmpeg

breaking news: you can write a GUI calling the ffmpeg-binary

we made a PHP wrapper as library-class years ago for ffmpeg which is then used by our cms-system as a GUI

but you can not to the other direction when you have a GUI software



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