Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast

Kai Lentit · 572K views · 2022-10-16 · 5:59

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Overview

Kai Lentit's comedy sketch parodying an interview with an FFmpeg enthusiast. It pokes fun at the open source command-line tool experience and video conversion woes.

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Shared as obligatory humor in FFmpeg and video tooling threads, praised as a funny take on the open source user experience.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2023–2026

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What people said

bawolff · 2023-02 · Recommendation
> Sidenote I was reminded of this comedy video: [VIDEO] "Interview with an FFMPEG Enthusiast" As an aside this is one of the funniest videos i've seen in a while, and totally captures the open source ux experience (i say in a loving joking way)
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ghgr · 2026-03 · Joke / meme
> Oh there's a new version of ffmpeg, I'll just quickly build it from source... no I can't wait I'll download the binary [VIDEO]
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susam · 2026-01 · Reference
[EDIT: This was meant to be a reply to another comment in this thread but I posted it under the top-level comment by mistake. I am leaving this comment intact anyway, in case someone finds it useful.] The web browsers don't highlight the feed URL information embedded in the HTML anymore, quite unfortunately. But if you go to a YouTube video, say, < [VIDEO] > and then view or inspect the HTML source, you can find the LINK tag for the feed: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href=" [LINK] So the feed URL in this case is: < [LINK] >.
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