One of the best open-source tools out there. I'm a frequent user of Plex, Jellyfin, Tunarr, local music files, etc. I use it weekly to extract subtitles, trim videos, convert music formats, and remove audio tracks. After writing the previous paragraph, I realized I've never donated to the project; it's time to change that.
It's a lower-level component in so much stuff we're not even aware of.
Yep. Which is a great architecture IMO. Simple, performant and flexible: choose 3
FFmpeg is a prime single-block-everything-is-built-on xkcd example.
It's a sibling to curl in that way