You're getting a lot of flak due to how you started off your comment, but I mostly agree with you.
In my opinion there are two kinds of users:
1. Users who use FFmpeg regularly enough to know/understand the parameters.
2. Users who only use FFmpeg once in a while to do something specific.
This wrapper is superfluous for users in group number 1.
But group number 2 does not really get much out of it either, for the reasons you've mentioned.
As a member of group 2, I usually want to do something very specific (e.g. remove an audio track, convert only the video, remux to a different container, etc.).
A simple English wrapper does not help me here because it is not powerful enough; the defaults are usually not what I want.
What I need is a tool that will take a more detailed English statement of what I want to achieve and spit out the FFmpeg command with explanations for what each parameter does and how it achieves my goal.
We have this today: AI; and it mostly works (once you've gone through several iterations of it hallucinating options that do not exist...).
Usually when AI hallucinates an option that doesn't exist, the option really should exist. So then I tell it to add it.
Then, several days later, I crawl away from fighting robots in a rabbit hole, and finally get around to doing what I set out to do in the first place....
In my opinion there are two kinds of users: 1. Users who use FFmpeg regularly enough to know/understand the parameters. 2. Users who only use FFmpeg once in a while to do something specific.
This wrapper is superfluous for users in group number 1. But group number 2 does not really get much out of it either, for the reasons you've mentioned.
As a member of group 2, I usually want to do something very specific (e.g. remove an audio track, convert only the video, remux to a different container, etc.). A simple English wrapper does not help me here because it is not powerful enough; the defaults are usually not what I want. What I need is a tool that will take a more detailed English statement of what I want to achieve and spit out the FFmpeg command with explanations for what each parameter does and how it achieves my goal. We have this today: AI; and it mostly works (once you've gone through several iterations of it hallucinating options that do not exist...).