Re: Is Programming Obsolete?

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 02:08:01 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

More recently i discovered xdotool and wrote scripts to produce music
videos out of MOD scene music using VirtualBox, various MOD trackers and
players, ProjectM, and ffmpeg.

You’ve got FFmpeg in there, the universal multimedia “sonic screwdriver”,
that should already be able to do nearly all the necessary conversions/
encoding.

I looked up projectm, and it seems to be some kind of OpenGL-based
visualizer, that comes as a library anyway, so you shouldn’t need to
struggle with operating it via some GUI’s puppet strings.

Similar thing for MOD files: I see that modplug is available as a library,
too. And it’s available as a build option for FFmpeg.