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We did some work to improve this a little, see for example: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=tree;f=doc/examples;...

This should be deployed with any new fresh ffmpeg install.

The filtering code is still unstable due to what's explained in the blog post...

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Its a start, but missing the point nonetheless. The grand idea is to have all the codecs and formats unified into one API, but the reality is that said API has become a gigantic dump yard. Redundant options and variables with one codec using one set and a different codec another. Not to mention to have stuff fail because a particular codec does not like a specific configuration.

It's good to see things improving.

To be honest, the biggest problem I had was that searches would return too many out of date code snippets and sample code on other sites that didn't match the exact version I was using, so it wouldn't work for me.

Other than that, once I got it working, it was awesome.

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