Comment by Philpax 4 days ago
Hate to be that guy, but which LLM was doing the generation? GPT-4 Turbo / Claude 3.x have not really let me down in generating ffmpeg commands - especially for basic requests - with most of their failures resulting from domain-specific vagaries that an expert would need to weigh in on m
You have a fair point. Some LLMs are better at some tasks, and prompts can make a difference no doubt.
Perhaps at some point there will be a triage LLM to slurp up the problem and then decide which secondary LLM is most optimal for that query, and some tertiary LLMs that execute and evaluate it in a virtual machine, etc.
Maybe someday
Oh I talked to some guys who started a company that does that. This was at an AI meetup in SF last year. They were mainly focused on making $/token cheaper by directing easy/dumb queries to smaller dumber models, but it also increases output quality because some models are just better at certain things. I'm sure all the big companies already have implementations of this by now even if they don't use it everywhere
Hate to be that guy, but which model works without fail for any task that ffmpeg can do?
I know I struggled on getting a good command to “simply” make the videos from my Z8 smaller (in file size).
Usually the color was wrong and I don’t care enough to learn about colorspaces to figure out how to fix it and it’s utterly insane how difficult it is even with LLMs.
Just reencode it as is but a little more lossy. Is that so hard?
Handbrake may be a better option for you. I find that for some tasks it’s not only simpler but straight up works better than FFmpeg.
GPT-4