Hey esteem captains of FFMPEG, It is that awful topic every AI wanker (me) wings on about (AI coding). I am a former chief scientist at AI companies, and have tried reaching out through many channels over the last two years for mentors to better understand exactly how FFMPEG wants to take itself into 2033 and beyond. I am a non-power user audiophile with a background in physics and signal processing.
So, I just downloaded OpenCode this week to explore vibe-coding, and ordered a V100 for $900 to set up an offline on-prem server. I spent a few hundred hours in 2022 and 2023 building my own FFMPEG wrappers for Python to produce various podcasts and videos for a YouTube channel. I am probably your typical non-power user who wants to go that next level. An FFMPEG MCP is a unique challenge. Data processing is time consuming, so any MCP would need to be equipped with extra protections of "explaining AI" to walk through each and every filter suggested, and "sample AI" to run these filters on small test clips to confirm each compiles (or video inspection matches expectation) to run in a typical closed loop creation. That is the part that really excites me about joining any project. The intricate systems of interacting filters is, of course, a defining asset of FFMPEG and a critical headache for new users. And for power developers on the FFMPEG team, this kind of critical un-black-box-ify is precisely what in my experience is powerful to preserve. To learn this over the upcoming year is to open the door to users (and me) learning to be power developers nearer to you on the FFMPEG team. It also templates for a large swatch of other types of code that need MCPs. I hope that you will take me under your wing with whatever working group you know exists. If this is better suited for a different email discussion list then my apologies, and if any of you have received emails from me before asking for contract opportunities you can reach out too. It would be *wonderful* to achieve sophisticated designs on par with TikTok using fast, easy, and efficient LLM interactions with FFMPEG, for the entire broader developer community. It would unbox FFMPEG for being the drivers of these platforms themselves, and I am almost certain there are cognate kids and developers to you all that would love to build that suite over an upcoming year for their portfolios, job applications, own startups, and more, starting here. Warm regards, Bernat David Bernat, Ph. D. Property of Starlight LLC.
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