My A–Z Toolbox: FFmpeg, among others

This is the sixth post in my A-Z Toolbox series, in which I’m listing tools I use down the alphabet for no logical or practical reason. The letter F conjures many words in the English language, many of which don’t express positive emotional states. It’s often invoked prior to mentioning something frustrating, like Flipping Windows Server. That’s regrettable, because there are lots of useful and fun tools. For me it’s an easy win for FFmpeg, the Swiss Army Knife of video and audio editing. Every episode of my silly show has at some point gone through it, and its the transcoder of choice for tools like Kdenlive for video editing, and Jellyfin for sharing media with the family. It also supports hardware acceleration with the appropriate extensions including, thankfully, AMD. Among other things, we have: Tools FDclone is a reimplementation of the DOS FD command. User friendly file searcher and explorer with syntax highlighting. fdupes for quickly finding duplicate files to clean up.…