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So you don't ever watch videos?
Or audio either lol
Are there other formats?
Not without ffmpeg.
you're arguing that the only format you know of is the only format. incorrect I'm afraid. gstreamer, libav, mediapipe, vapoursynth, imagemagick to name a few, there are alternatives.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about lol
ffmpeg is a video format conversion tool/encoder/editor and is used in pretty much everything you see or hear. It's used in half the tools you mention!
Ffmpeg isn't a format.