How to Get Started Using FFmpeg for Transcoding

How to encode and decode video assets with FFMPEG.

FFmpeg installation instructions, building from source:

FFmpeg installation flags for homebrew on OSX:

FFmpeg -map examples:

[bobbyshaftoe]

Man, i wish this guy kept doing ffmpeg tutorials.. especially map stuff.

[bobbyshaftoe]

Practical ffmpeg basics for the non-gamer :-) nice!

[MyLinuxToyBox]

Very handy thing is to keep scripts you use and verify working on your computer either in a text file or an SQLite database.

[loydloyd]

Nice job, but can you write code to how to take for example an hour long video and cut it in 10 min increments, no encoding?

[TodRobbins]

Thank you for the overview! I'm curious if you have any recommended resources for working with 2K+ assets within ffmpeg. Cheers!

[ocelot]

So if for instance you wanted to fool around, take a YouTube, cut out the video, and just show the sub titles If it has them, the output would be a "video" with a black screen, and the subtitles and sound?

[LEITWOLFfilm]

Hi Nick, I'm using ffmpeg for a while now. It gives me a hard time however, to figure out how to batch process video files. I've done quite a research over the last weeks but the info was either too specific or too broad. Nothing that I could recreate on my system. I am using ffmpeg with the terminal on osx. My goal is to batch process multiple videos from one format to another. On the one hand I want to process multiple videos with identical parameters and on the other hand it would be nice to assign different parameters to certain vides in a list. It would be great if you could post a step by step video with this topic covered.

[NistkastenLivestream]

I need to change the audio from a input RTSP or RTMP stream from G711 into AAC at the Output RTSP or RTMP. How i can do this? I try this now since 2 months because the manufacturer of the camera is too stupid to add aac to his cameras with an firmware-update... the output rtsp or rtmp needs to be the same like the input but only the audio needs to be changed to aac codec. Anybody a idea how to perform this? i installed ffmpeg on a raspberry pi and the streaming-server is another raspberry with "datarhei restreamer" as software.

[daniyalkhan]

Nice lesson sir i have vedios 1080p mp4 i wnat to change vedios codec and 4k 2160p vp9 webm plz give me information ffmpege command full input and output best settings lossless 60fps

[strattheodoratou]

I need to trancode a NDxHD TO PRORES. How on earth can I do this? Could you please help me by giving specific instructions?

[FrankieTheOne]

What is the best quality to export mov files and how can I 1080p to 4k with mov files??