[Bf-committers] FFMPEG UI is bad

[Knapp]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mike Belanger
<mikejamesbelanger at gmail.com>wrote:

> Absolutely +1 from me.  FFMPEG is currently a minefield for users, even
> developers.
>
> Although, I must warn different encoding settings work on different
> platforms.  So the presets would
> best be OS-specific.


My understanding of FFMPEG is that even the same OS might have different
codecs. Kubuntu is an example. It only has the free codecs build in. You
must install the FFMPEG from Medibuntu to get the FFMPEG with the other
codecs. Is that confusing or what?




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