#Ffmpeg commands and syntax software

The order of the options in an FFmpeg command has some significance, but generally you can use any order you want. That's what the documentation is for – you can read it online here in this huge one-page HTML document or just do man ffmpeg-all in your terminal. The examples below have little to no context and usually do not explain all the different options used. Just search the page for the example you need. – the official FFmpeg wiki contains some very good examples.Ĭontributions are welcome.Some of the commands have been taken verbatim from other sources, others have been heavily modified since. License: Feel free to use the information here in any way you wish, no attribution is needed, but I take no responsibility for the results of your actions. I'm making it public because someone else might find some pieces of information here useful. This is my personal collection of FFmpeg commands, recorded here for myself to come back to and check when I need something. FFmpeg will run on Linux, Windows, OS X and other platforms. It comes as a command-line tool, but many programs ship with a built-in version of FFmpeg in them to be able to process multimedia files. It can be used to do an unbelievable range of things and it's being utilized by virtually anyone who's doing any form of video processing.

#Ffmpeg commands and syntax software

If you haven't met with FFmpeg yet, this page might be of little use to you.įFmpeg is a free, open-source software and it's the Swiss Army knife of video- and audio-related processing. This repo contains examples for useful FFmpeg commands extracted from practical needs.