Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

@mstrohm Well I do wish #ffmpeg had support for decoding #AC4 audio; this is becoming important in parts of the world where ATSC3 television is coming on the air. If you could include that, that would be great!

But the biggest problem with #ffmpeg is it's like having a lamp with a genie that will do all sorts of wonderful things, but only understands some unknown language that you only know a few words of. People would use ffmpeg more if only it were documented in a way that users could finds answers to haw to do whatever tasks they are trying to do. The format of "list each option and a basic description of what it does" only works if you only have a few options AND can explain them in way that a typical user can understand. It does not work when you have hundreds or thousands of possible options and combinations of options and the user hasn't the foggiest clue which option they are looking for, or if they find the option, they find documentation that only makes sense to a programmer or a developer. So that would be my biggest #featurerequest for your #endemm #software, don't make your documentation like ffmpeg's documentation, make it better and show actual examples for each option so people can figure out how to use it!

@trinsec @freemo Well the thing I hate about the reply button is that it doesn't show any of what you're replying to. I follow many #hashtags and quite often I will see a reply with absolutely no context to indicate what is being discussed. So that is why sometimes I like to use the quote toot so others are not put in that position.

Unfortunately, I am not a developer or programmer, in part due to my terrible memory which has only gotten worse with my advancing age. Back in the 1980's I still had enough functioning brain cells that I might have attempted something like that IF the code was in a language I could understand, but that ship has unfortunately long since sailed. Now making even a short bash script of just a few lines is becoming a real challenge. Sorry, wish I could help.

@milesmcbain That is a great way to put it, although unfortunately that's not how it's usually framed. There are too many bike proponents that are like the type of vegans who choose not to eat meat and other animal byproducts, but who also think that the world would be a better place if they could force everyone else to adopt their choices. And when you try to force people to make a choice they don't want to make there is almost always some form of backlash.

But I do agree that you'd probably get a lot more bike paths built (at least in places where they aren't openly antagonistic to them) if all the bike path proponents took your approach! The minute someone starts saying "people should use bikes to get to work or school" the antagonism starts to form. Even people who love riding a bike for excercise (or whatever) generally don't want to be forced to rely on them in the middle of a blizzard or a pouring rain.

By the way, just because some people CAN carry a bunch of stuff on a bike doesn't mean that most people want to do that. When I was younger I used to ride a motorcycle and even with that it was a pain in the butt to transport anything at all bulky. Yes, maybe I COULD figure out some way to break it down and/or strap it to the motorcycle, but it took a lot of time and effort and every time I did it I'd think about how much more convenient it would be just chuck the item(s) into the trunk of a car. And that was on a motorcycle - I can only imagine how much time and effort people would have to spend preparing larger or numerous items for transport on a bicycle!