Am Montag, dem 12.10.2026 um 17:35 +0000 schrieb Carl Zwanzig via
ffmpeg-user:
> 
> On 10/11/2026 6:09 PM, William C Bonner via ffmpeg-user wrote:
> > Obviously the list is still active, but being a human knowledge
> > repository,
> > most questions can be answered more quickly by asking the AI of
> > your
> > choice. 
> 
> Add to that the burnout of the knowledgeable people responding to, 
> frankly, idiot questions. In the last few years there have been more 
> than a few waves of "how do I do...?" questions which would be
> answered 
> by reading the doc, don't contain useful debugging info, or were 
> problems with sometimes years-old builds (all of which are covered in
> the list FAQ). Then there were the occasional "it doesn't work the
> way I 
> want it to, FIX IT!!" emails. Fewer good answers leads to fewer
> people 
> asking good questions - it's not surprising that the volume dropped.
> 
> There's also the overall shift from command-line to GUI-operated 
> utilities; why try to figure out ffmpeg when handbrake will do the
> same 
> thing and is easier for many people to use?
> 
I understand and sad to hear. In the past these list was a good place
for discussions and to find help around ffmpeg. Which alternatives are
available? AI? Not for me, but in that case I have to find my own
solution...

So to answer my own question ... list is dead.. RIP



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