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FFmpeg

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About FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a comprehensive multimedia framework that handles recording, transcoding, streaming, and inspecting audio and video files. Its command-line interface and batch-friendly design make it suitable for automated media workflows.

Key features

  1. 01Convert video formats and codecs
  2. 02Process multiple media files in batch
  3. 03Inspect and analyze media properties

Use cases

  1. 01Automate video transcoding pipelines
  2. 02Generate outputs in multiple formats
  3. 03Extract media metadata and diagnostic information

Install

Pick your OS or package manager and run the command in a terminal.

$
brew install ffmpeg

Once installed, runffmpeg --versionto confirm it works.

Example commands

Common commands in the order you’d use them.

01
ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4
02
ffprobe input.mp4

Details

From the project README

FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to Forgejo or the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.

See https://ffmpeg.org/developer.html for more information.

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