You are completely missing his point with his answer. His point was less about ffmpeg being broken or not, and more about the fact that if you can't have an opinion or input of your own beside parroting a advanced Markov chain generator, then you don't matter in the discussion.
Wouldn't be surprised if Gemini is proofing the HN comments too.
Assuming I'm the he, that last part isn't exactly what I meant. I meant that there's not a good faith effort in partaking in the conversation. I disagree with blindly following the LLM but even if you do there are ways to productively get help with it.