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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shape4985@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] small44@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not discovered last year but ffmpeg.Crazy how many tools it can replace and how many usecase it has

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What exactly is FFMPEG an alternative to? I keep hearing people mention it, but I've never stopped to look into it until now.

I tend to do some very basic video editing just to put an image with an audio file so I can upload my music to YouTube. This can do what I need it to do? To what degree can this replace a video editor with a full graphical interface?

Edit: Nevermind. I definitely misunderstood what the tool was at a fundamental level. Got it now.