I’m glad someone took the initiative.
I had been thinking the same thing, and was similarly worried. FFMPEG is
code for the Internet.

I’d still love to find a handful of hobbyists who want to work an MCP for
command line tooling with FFMPEG. I’ve mentioned this before. It will help
a lot of users manage the difficulties of filters, complex graphs, and
optimizations. I’ve been in LLMs and AI for a decade. I figure the project
takes about 150 hours to do really well, and really stable, so maybe six to
nine months with two to three people at a leisurely pace. I’d be happy to
lead the working group and do the majority of the software engineering.

I just need to see there is activity and interest to know the personal
investment is not professionally fruitless. It will help a lot of people,
and be a great open source product. That much is certain.

David Bernat, Ph. D.
Property of Starlight LLC.


On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 1:15 AM Carl Zwanzig via ffmpeg-user <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/16/2026 6:48 PM, David Niklas via ffmpeg-user wrote:
> > I haven't gotten any mails from this popular list in over two weeks, so
> > I'm pinging the list to see if it's still here.
>
> Looks like it hasn't been that popular :).
>
> "It's quiet... too quiet...
> [gunshot; bullet whizzes past his head]
> Now, suddenly, it's too loud. I preferred it when it was quiet."
>
> Later,
>
> z!
>
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