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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.

Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.

It's even worse than tar.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

GNU tar is easy and straight-forward.

It's also completely incompatible with any other Unix, but then, what difference does it make is nobody can use them?