First, we convert the VMware avi (VMnc format) to the Microsoft avi format. Next, we convert the Microsoft avi format to FLV format. You can play around with the -r switch (rate per second) and the -b switch (bitrate). But, if those get larger, so does your FLV file.

Gives stereo, 16bit, 44.1kHz (default in Ubuntu/Medibuntu ffmpeg). -aq 2 = 220-250kbit/s VBR, lower number is better quality. 2 or 3 should be good for most people. If you want the best mp3 q you should remove -aq and use -ab 320k to get 320kbit/s, but that is probably overkill for most .flv videos.

I'm not well enough versed in the differences between ffmpeg & mencoder to know which one is better.

http://tinyurl.com/yj7wgqe

yt-mp3chanrip() { for count in 1 51 101 151 201 251 301; do for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads\?start-index="$count"\&max-results=50 | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do ffmpeg -i $(wget http://youtube.com/"$i" -qO- | sed -n "/fmt_url_map/{s/[\'\"\|]/\n/g;p}" | sed -n '/^fmt_url_map/,/videoplayback/p' | sed -e :a -e '$q;N;5,$D;ba' | tr -d '\n' | sed -e 's/\(.*\),\(.\)\{1,3\}/\1/') -vn -ab 128k "$(youtube-dl -e http://youtube.com/"$i").mp3"; done; done; unset count i; } create the function and run with yt-mp3chanrip YoutubeUsername Great for channels like ukfDrumAndBass that only post music. No more need for third party browser plugins or websites that only convert one vid one at a time. It'll convert and save to CWD up to 300 of a user's videos to mp3s, one at a time. To increase, just increment the $count pattern. This is a concoction from commands #7718 and #7752, so it uses ffmpeg wget, curl, sed, and youtube-dl -- youtube-dl is only used to get the title of the video which it uses to name the mp3 file. You can use a different naming method if you want and the function should still work.

yt2mp3(){ for j in `seq 1 301`;do i=`curl -s gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/$1/uploads\?start-index=$j\&max-results=1|grep -o "watch[^&]*"`;ffmpeg -i `wget youtube.com/$i -qO-|grep -o 'url_map"[^,]*'|sed -n '1{s_.*|__;s_\\\__g;p}'` -vn -ab 128k "`youtube-dl -e ${i#*=}`.mp3";done;} squeezed the monster (and nifty ☺) command from 7776 from 531 characters to 284 characters, but I don't see a way to get it down to 255. This is definitely a kludge!

It loops through all files in current directory that have flac extension and converts them to mp3 files with bitrate of 320kpbs using ffmpeg and default codec.

umph is parsing video links from Youtube playlists ( http://code.google.com/p/umph/ ) cclive is downloading videos from Youtube ( http://cclive.sourceforge.net/ ) Example: yt-pl2mp3 7AB74822FE7D03E8

ffmpeg [source specification if needed] -i $src -an -vcodec libx264 -coder 0 -threads 0 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 5 -trellis 1 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -level 13 -g 15 -crf 25 -s 320x224 -aspect 16:9 -r 15 -b 186000 -vb 186000 -minrate 176700 -maxrate 195300 -bt 9300 -bufsize 262500 -muxrate 195300 -vglobal 1 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstVideoPort1 -vn -acodec libfaac -async 2 -flags +global_header -ac 1 -ar 44100 -ab 64000 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstAudioPort1 -newaudio -an -vcodec libx264 -coder 0 -threads 0 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 5 -trellis 1 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -level 13 -g 20 -crf 25 -s 320x224 -aspect 16:9 -r 20 -b 286000 -vb 286000 -minrate 271700 -maxrate 300300 -bt 14300 -bufsize 367500 -muxrate 300300 -vglobal 1 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstVideoPort2 -newvideo -vn -acodec libfaac -async 2 -flags +global_header -ac 1 -ar 44100 -ab 64000 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstAudioPort2 -newaudio -an -vcodec libx264 -coder 0 -threads 0 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 5 -trellis 1 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -level 30 -g 25 -crf 25 -s 480x336 -aspect 16:9 -r 25 -b 386000 -vb 386000 -minrate 366700 -maxrate 405300 -bt 19300 -bufsize 472500 -muxrate 405300 -vglobal 1 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstVideoPort3 -newvideo -vn -acodec libfaac -async 2 -flags +global_header -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 64000 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstAudioPort3 -newaudio -an -vcodec libx264 -coder 0 -threads 0 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 5 -trellis 1 -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -level 30 -g 25 -crf 25 -s 480x336 -aspect 16:9 -r 25 -b 686000 -vb 686000 -minrate 651700 -maxrate 720300 -bt 34300 -bufsize 787500 -muxrate 720300 -vglobal 1 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstVideoPort4 -newvideo -vn -acodec libfaac -async 2 -flags +global_header -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 64000 -f rtp rtp://$dstIP:$dstAudioPort4 -newaudio Show Sample Output

May need to use pavucontrol to set sound to correct things, use when ffmpeg is running.

sxga ==> 1280x1024 vga ==> 800x600 ------------------------------------------------ xwininfo -root | grep geometry ------------------------------------------------

A simple command to extract audio from flv/mp4 video file. Just change extentions...

More stealthy ffmpeg method. The imagemagick 'import' method causes a system beep.

Now we can capture only a specific window (we have to chose by clicking on it) ffmpeg complains about "Frame size must be a multiple of 2" so we calculate the upper even number with (g)awk trickery. We remove the grep, we are already using (g)awk here ....why losing time with grep !!! ;) Show Sample Output

This is the fastest way to burn a DVD-Video from the command line. Dependencies: libav-tools dvdauthor growisofs The first command: avconv -i input.avi -target pal-dvd dvd.mpg converts any given video file avconv can handle into MPEG2-PS (6 Mbit/s) with AC3 audio (448 kbit/s). If your distribution is not up to date, just use ffmpeg - the syntax is the same. Hint: If you want to create an NTSC DVD, type ntsc-dvd instead ;-) The second command: echo PAL > ~/.config/video_format sets PAL as your default video format. This is a workaround for an old dvdauthor bug. If you want NTSC, guess what? Type NTSC instead! The third command: dvdauthor -o dvd/ -t dvd.mpg creates .VOB files and adds them to the dvd/ folder. You don't have to create this folder yourself. You can add as many titles as you like, just keep in mind that there's a maximum of 4482 MiB (4.37 GiB) for normal DVDs. The fourth command: dvdauthor -o dvd/ -T finishes the DVD-Video. Now you can burn your DVD using growisofs: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video dvd/ Sources: manpages http://tuxicity.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/avi-to-dvd-with-ffmpeg-and-dvdauthor/

Since ffmpeg on Ubuntu is deprecated, now there is avconv. Please note that the screen area here is set with a predefined format "-s wxga" that is corresponding to "-s 1366x768") There is also the option to add a title in the metadata of the resulting video.

-i sets the source file -r sets the output frame rate, set it to the same frame rate as the input to output each frame -f sets the output format, trough it might be guessed by the extension

-i sets the source file -f and -acodec both set the output to be raw audio, PCM signed 16-bit little endian

Set variable 'input' to a set of flac files.