[FFmpeg-user] flame about confusing command line options.

[Reindl Harald]

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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