Ffmpegs documentation on the other hand forces me to feel as though it’s normal to assume knowledge about a point in a video and what it means if my encoders are different from input to output.
For example not the best - re-encoding video or audio tracks when it could just copy them, picking the defaults when their is a better quality option?
Video and audio processing is one of things that if you want good results with wide flexibility you have to learn it and also try things out.
ffplay --help
$ man ffmpeg-all 2> /dev/null | wc -l
33160anyway, on my system (macOS, ffmpeg 4.3.1 from Homebrew) the situation is even more dire:
$ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
38738 $ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
troff: <standard input>:6148: warning [p 42, 3.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:6150: warning [p 42, 3.7i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:11396: warning [p 68, 8.7i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:11398: warning [p 68, 9.2i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:13562: warning [p 79, 6.0i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:13564: warning [p 79, 6.5i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:26366: warning [p 132, 17.2i]: can't break line
troff: <standard input>:38313: warning [p 174, 27.5i]: can't break line
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