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That's such a clunky workflow and takes so long, sometimes you want to drag and drop a file, tick a couple of checkboxes and click a button

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Why don't you keep a text file with the 3 commands you want to regularly run in the ffmpeg directory? fast. easy. cheap.

That still feels like a chore, opening some text file, copying the right command, opening a terminal, messing around with input and output file paths..

I don't like interacting with command line parameters in general, it feels clunky to me, but I don't think there's a point in arguing about it since it is more of a personal preference

Considering the website we’re on, under what circumstances would you not have a terminal open?

But which checkboxes? Ffmpeg would probably need a hundred thousand.

categorize, add tooltips, show defaults... this is some basic UI design stuff, should be possible.

But all of them have parameters. And depend on each other. And the order of filters matters. There is no way to make a simple interface for all ffmpeg can do.

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