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i was trying to do something with ffmpeg yesterday and was able to get it to produce 2.4GB of output. of text. to stderr.

the problem was...

due to string interpolation gone awry, i had passed -ar 0 (i.e. audio sample rate of zero) to ffmpeg. ffmpeg then helpfully printed as many error message as it could warning that this wasn't a viable configuration, instead of terminating early.