FFmpeg Verbose Logging

Using FFmpeg's `-loglevel` and debug options can aid in troubleshooting encoding/decoding issues. Documentation on log levels (quiet, panic, error, info, verbose, debug) and flags (like `-report` to write logs to file) helps developers enable detailed logs to inspect what FFmpeg

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