curl is the ffmpeg of http

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@tsoding i concur

@tsoding okay. but what is the httpd of mp4?

@tsoding complexity levels are nowhere comparible though

@tsoding this is completely unfair to curl. ffmpeg has the most insane interface ever, made neither for humans nor machines. the only reason people use ffmpeg and not the libraries underneath is that the license basically prevents you from linking to them.

@tsoding This is misleading when you consider curl supports more than http. You're on point, though. Every device with Internet runs curl.

@tsoding Not true, people understand curl, even neo from the matrix is still training to fully understand the power of ffmpeg

@tsoding TIL vlc is just a wrapper over ffmpeg.

@tsoding awk is ffmpeg of stream editors

@tsoding I think that's unfair to ffmpeg

@tsoding Curl is awesome but wget looks better

@tsoding ffmpeg is the curl of media

@tsoding sed the curl of plain text what is the sed of raw bytes?

@tsoding curl can be considered malware

@tsoding A work bud comes to me and he said, how are we going to test the APIs without Postman or Swagger ☠️☠️

@tsoding glimp is the schmigledot of sweeble

@tsoding @grok what is ffmpeg?

@tsoding those sweet, sweet, reverse engineered proprietary hypertext protocols

@tsoding please do C without headers

@tsoding curl or wget. Both have proven handy.

😁 I want to say yes because it sounds about right.. stilll.. ffmpeg used to be a decoder.. curl is just a tcp socket of a sorts for command line, decoding is done by dhcp.. it's like saying encoding mp4s and launching a query is the same thing.. 😁.. I could be wrong.. I am not an expert..

@tsoding Agreed

@tsoding curl guy here

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@tsoding real

@tsoding And the author is a sweet person who collaborates a lot. You should interview him.

@tsoding Ffmpeg is goated

@tsoding @news2pump launch

@tsoding wget and curl are both good… there’s alternatives to curl but theres no alternatives to ffmpeg

@tsoding Bro

@tsoding well said, my friend

@tsoding this makes so much sense… and jq is the ffmpeg of JSON

@tsoding No. It is not Ffmoeg is for audio video editing. Curl is similar to where. The two have little to nothing in common. Your statement is false.