Zed A. Shaw, Painter

ffmpeg has to be the slowest encoder on the market. No matter what options you throw at it the performance is nearly the same. Meanwhile, Davinci Resolve can process hours of video on multiple GPUs at 4x-10x speedups.

Like, if I say "use 16 threads" your ass better chop my file into 16 chunks and hurt my CPUs. ffmpeg totally ignores it. I say, "use video acceleration" you better also do that acceleration on all those threads. I say "just flip the video" you better not also compress it.

But here's ffmpeg: "Oh you want videotoolbox on 16 threads to flip this video 180? How about you get 1980s video quality on 1 cpu and go fuck yourself."

Meanwhile, I load and flip the video manually in Davinci Resolve and it punishes my machine and finishes the job in 1/4th the time. If it weren't for the fact that ffmpeg is command line I'd just use DR.

Additionally, I want to copy the original video's everything, just flip the video. ffmpeg requires options galore to make it stop compressing my videos. Eat a lawnmower you asshole and stop touching my quality. Now I'm just going to use Davinci Resolve. I'd be done now.