FFmpeg is indeed a powerful video encoder/decoder tool¹. It operates in the command line, as opposed to using a GUI. Command line is that black window you find by typing [windows+r], then cmd in the …

Feb 14, 2020 · I really want to get more into video/audio encoding and decoding, and I’ve heard that ffmpeg is a good tool, but I can’t find any good tutorials for it. Does anyone know a good way to learn it?

Sep 12, 2017 · Simply specify the desired framerate in "-r " option before the input file: ffmpeg -y -r 24 -i seeing_noaudio.mp4 seeing.mp4 Options affect the next file AFTER them. "-r" before an input file …

ffmpeg has a default stream selection behavior that will select 1 stream per stream type (1 video, 1 audio, 1 subtitle, 1 data). -vn is an old, legacy option. It excludes video from the default stream …

Jul 19, 2012 · I have two videos of the same exact length, and I would like to use ffmpeg to stack them into one video file. How can I do this?

I tried to cut the video using the start and end time of the video by using the following command: ffmpeg -ss 00:00:03 -t 00:00:08 -i movie.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -async 1 cut.mp4 By using ...

Apr 15, 2011 · Long story short: ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac output.mp4 As @LordNeckbeard mentioned, you need to use the libx264 encoder to produce the proper video with …

Dec 17, 2025 · In both cases, you are telling ffmpeg that the output format is only allowed to be yuv420p, so it will auto-insert the necessary filters as needed if the source format does not match the …

Jun 10, 2015 · I combine bash, ffmpeg, sed to write to a file only the basic metadata information that interests me: file type and name, title (s), video-, audio- and subtitlestreams details.

How do you convert an entire directory/folder with ffmpeg via command line or with a batch script?