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Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way
Date 2025-11-16 03:01 +0100
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On 2025-11-16 01:32, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:50 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-11-15 23:09, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:50:18 +0100, Joerg Walther wrote:
>>>
>>>> OTOH: For simple video conversion you could always use Handbrake. :)
>>>
>>> I thought Handbrake would just be a GUI frontend onto the ffmpeg
>>> command. But it appears it has forked its own copy of the FFmpeg
>>> libraries.
>>>
>>> Somehow I don’t think that’s wise ...
>>
>> It ensures a stable API, that would be my guess. It is very
>> difficult to create a GUI for ffmpeg if they are constantly changing
>> the syntax
> 
> FFmpeg command syntax hasn’t changed that much in, say, the last 5-10
> years.

I have scripts to convert files that stopped working with some ffmpeg 
update.

> 
> I wrote a Python script for a client that uses ffprobe to extract
> telemetry streams from video files created on GoPro cameras. ffprobe
> identifies the location of each packet and its associated PTS, and my code
> does the actual extraction and decoding of the data. Nice and simple,
> without having to build against any special libraries.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-12 23:20 +0000
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-12 23:51 +0000
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-13 11:01 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-13 20:05 +0000
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-13 08:29 -0500
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-11-13 14:46 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-13 11:35 -0500
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 14:56 +0100
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-11-13 14:54 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 23:14 +0100
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-13 20:03 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-11-13 20:12 +0000
        Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 22:23 +0100
          Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-15 07:25 +1000
            Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-14 22:58 +0100
              Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-14 22:12 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-15 00:00 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-14 23:27 +0000
                fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:29 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:39 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 03:00 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 02:33 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 15:03 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 21:25 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 12:48 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 01:00 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 07:22 +0100
                fmpeg drift (2) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:34 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-16 13:34 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 15:19 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 23:56 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-17 00:49 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 03:17 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-17 02:39 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 21:21 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-11-15 09:50 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:09 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:00 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:32 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 03:01 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 02:33 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 23:09 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 22:41 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-16 22:45 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-11-16 11:32 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:26 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:35 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:37 +0000
            Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:33 +0000
              Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-16 07:31 +1000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:08 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-17 07:00 +1000
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    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-13 19:20 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-13 20:12 +0000
        Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-13 23:32 +0000

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