The number of times I’ve opened FFmpegs man page must number in the hundreds. I think I’m a pretty good conceptually, but I can’t remember all the flags. IE that –s is frame size, while -fs is file size.

And while that man page does have some examples, these days I tend to ask an LLM (or if it’s going to be simple Google) for an example.

No, not really, or I should say simple examples are for beginners.

Typically when I'm writing example pages I write it in

Simple example

Simple example

Simple example

Intermediate example

Intermediate example

Complex example.

Having complex examples can really help those that are looking at going beyond the basics.