Message-ID: <668dbd4f@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <668b224a@news.ausics.net> <668c7214@news.ausics.net> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 10 Jul 2024 08:44:31 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 27 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 1858 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On 9 Jul 2024 09:11:16 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> On 8 Jul 2024 09:18:34 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> ffmpeg >>> >>> The multimedia sonic screwdriver. If there's a format or codec it >>> doesn't handle, it's because that format or codec simply isn't worth >>> using. >> >> Indeed, although it's unfortunate that the ways to do some seemingly >> easy things like joining two video files together can require a very >> complicated set of command-line options. > > Because some file formats (e.g. MPEG-4) do not work if you simply > concatenate files. Well yeah, otherwise I'd just use Cat. Anyway thankfully I don't have to do it often. Last time was to set up a scripted process for someone to get video 'scenes' off their camera as one continuous video, then they never used it and changed their mind about learning to use a video editor program, which they'd adamantly refused to do when I suggested it in the first place. Huff. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#