[microsound] On impossibility of linux

[Joost van der Molen]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Michal Seta <mis at artengine.ca> wrote:
> my linux geek opinion, which is the only correct way, right?).  If I want to
> convert a video, I open a terminal I type ffmpeg with some options and I get
> what I want.  On a Mac, what do I do?  I have to buy QuickTIme pro, find out
> that the codec I want to convert to, is not supported, find a third party
> software, learn it (just like you would have to learn ffmpeg's command line
> options),  try it, find out that the software requires some additional
> plugin and by the time I figured it out it informs me that my trial period
> has run out and I have to buy a licence to use it.  But I have not yet tried
> it and, as far as I can see, it cannot even do the simple transcode.  There
> were other things that I needed to do but did not know how so I sought

Or use the free ffmpeg for OS X ;)