Commands matching ffmpeg

Grab X11 input and create an MPEG at 25 fps with the resolution 800x600

With:

-vcodec, you choose what video codec the new file should be encoded with. Run ffmpeg -formats E to list all available video and audio encoders and file formats.

copy, you choose the video encoder that just copies the file.

-acodec, you choose what audio codec the new file should be encoded with.

copy, you choose the audio encoder that just copies the file.

-i originalfile, you provide the filename of the original file to ffmpeg

-ss 00:01:30, you choose the starting time on the original file in this case 1 min and 30 seconds into the film

-t 0:0:20, you choose the length of the new film

newfile, you choose the name of the file created.

Here is more information of how to use ffmpeg:

http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

This is handy for making screenshots of all your videos for referring to in your flv player.

Certain codecs in high res don't play so well on my Dell Mini 9. Using this command, I can play just about anything and it keeps the sound in sync to boot!

I used an flv in my example, but it'll work on any file ffmpeg supports. It says it wants an output file, but it tells what you want to know without one.

You will have to use the sound preferences (record) to choose the audio source and set it to internal.

This converts any media ffmpeg handles to flash. It would actually convert anything to anything, it's based on the file extension. It doesn't do ANY quality control, sizing, etc, it just does what it thinks is best. I needed an flv for testing, and this spits one out easily.

Takes all the .3gp files in the directory, rotates them by 90 degrees, and saves them in the lossless ffv1 encoding.

If this rotates in the wrong direction, you may want transponse=1

Re-encoding to ffv1 may result in a significant increase in file size, as it is a lossless format. Other applications may not recognize ffv1 if they don't use ffmpeg code. "huffyuv" might be another option for lossless saving of your transformations.

The audio may be re-encoded as well, if the encoding used by your 3gp file doesn't work in a avi container.

Download YouTube videos as .flv and convert them to .3gp for your mobile phone.

This is an extract from a larger script which formats the video for DVD. The videos I use have no audio track so I need to add one. Tweak as you like...

Proper screencast with audio using ffmpeg and x264, as per http://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/how-to-do-proper-screencasts-on-linux/

This assumes that there is a 10.2 sec delay between the video and the audio (delayed).

To extract the original video into a audio and video composites look at the command on extracting audio and video from a movie

rips the audio and video stream of a movie. The two streams are stored separately.

This is an extract from a larger script which makes up slideshow videos from images. $seconds is the number of seconds the video will last, and $num is a loop counter which numbers the videos for concat into a longer video later, so they will be in order. The dev/null bit on the end cuts ffmpeg's verbosity.

Record from a webcam, audio using ALSA encoded as MP3, video as MPEG-4.

To rip DVD movie to ogg format using ffmpeg, follow these steps.

1) find the vob files on the mounted video DVD in VIDEO_TS that stores the movie itself. There would be a few other VOB files that stores splash screen or special features, the vob files for the movie itself can be identified by its superior size. You can verify these vob files by playing them directly with a player (e.g. mplayer)

2) concatenate all such vob files, pipe to ffmpeg

3) calculate the video size and crop size. The ogg video size must be multiple of 16 on both width and height, this is inherit limitation of theora codec. In my case I took 512x384.

The -vcodec parameter is necessary because ffmpeg doesn't support theora by itself. -acodec is necessary otherwise ffmpeg uses flac by default.