That’s exactly what ffmpeg is. It’s not pretty. It has no GUI. It will punish you for a missing colon. But once you learn to speak its language, you realize it’s the most logical tool ever created.
There’s a moment in Young Sheldon Season 2, Episode 19 ("A Broken Heart and a Crock Monster") that stops me cold every time. It’s not the emotional fallout of Mary’s new job or the chaos of the crock-pot monster. It’s a throwaway line. young sheldon s02e19 ffmpeg
Sheldon is trying to document... something. (Honestly, with him, it’s either a scientific anomaly or a minor injustice committed by Missy.) He’s holding a camcorder, frustrated, and mutters something about the file being "too big" and the format being "incompatible with Dr. Sturgis’s Linux partition." That’s exactly what ffmpeg is
And I thought: Finally. A job for ffmpeg. It will punish you for a missing colon