Add an audio soundtrack to a series of images to create an flv

ffmpeg -t 300 -r '0.5' -i head-%03d.png -i ../TvQuran.com__144.mp3 -acodec copy muxed.flv

Creates a 5 minute flv file, with the given sequence of images and audio with 0.5 fps. The images were created using the following command: for x in `seq 0 300`; do cp ../head.PNG head-`printf '%03d' $x`.png; done You can also inject metadata to seek easier using yamdi as follows: yamdi -i muxed.flv -o video.flv

Sample Output

Input #0, image2, from 'head-%03d.png':
  Duration: 00:10:02.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0: Video: png, rgb24, 600x107, 0.50 tbr, 0.50 tbn, 0.50 tbc
[mp3 @ 0xc93ae50]mdb:255, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
    Last message repeated 1 times
Input #1, mp3, from '../TvQuran.com__144.mp3':
  Duration: 00:05:39.40, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 63 kb/s
    Stream #1.0: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s
File 'muxed.flv' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, flv, to 'muxed.flv':
    Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 600x107, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 0.50 tbc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: libmp3lame, 22050 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #1.0 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame=  167 fps=  0 q=2.0 Lsize=    3163kB time=334.00 bitrate=  77.6kbits/s
video:351kB audio:2610kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 6.847169%

By: pykler

2010-10-07 16:29:08

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