Hey friends,

We're celebrating Easter this week, which happens to be my favorite holiday (sorry Christmas, it's not you, it's me.) We really ought to have MORE holidays in the U.S...

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ffmpeg. It's big, it's powerful, and it's as inscrutable as a cat's behavior or the rules of certain board games 😏. Trying to work out it's many many options can be daunting, but this week I'm sharing my cheatsheet for common media conversion tasks with ffmpeg.

Check it out: ffmpeg Basic and Recipes

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