Tips: Most used ffmpeg options

Tutorials

A FFmpeg Tutorial For Beginners
http://keycorner.org/pub/text/doc/ffmpeg-tutorial.htm

Check this out, and you will understand how easy media conversion becomes with FFmpeg.

A quick guide to using FFmpeg to convert media files
https://opensource.com/article/17/6/ffmpeg-convert-media-file-formats

05 Jun 2017 Tim Nugent

FFmpeg is a great tool for quickly changing an AV file's format or quality, extracting audio, creating GIFs, and more.

19 ffmpeg commands for all needs
https://www.catswhocode.com/blog/19-ffmpeg-commands-for-all-needs

Posted on Sep 22, 2008

ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. I have compiled 19 useful and amazing commands covering almost all needs: video conversion, sound extraction, encoding file for iPod or PSP, and more.

FFMPEG commands
https://www.bugcodemaster.com/article/ffmpeg-commands

Submitted by VicSanches on Thu, 11/24/2016

Here I come with a compilation of some of the most used commands of ffmpeg. Some of you could refer to this as some of the most used ffmpeg options. You can use this page as a quick reference guide for your ffmpeg operations.

20 FFmpeg Commands For Beginners
https://www.ostechnix.com/20-ffmpeg-commands-beginners/

BY SK · PUBLISHED MAY 10, 2017 · UPDATED MAY 12, 2018

In this guide, I will be explaining how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio and video transcoding, conversion operations with examples.

ffmpeg option quick references

Extract/Cut by time

This can be easily done using the "-t" option. Take a look at the example.

$ ffmpeg -i input.fmt1  -t 30 output.fmt2

The time specified is in seconds. But the format hh.mm.ss is also supported. This command will convert the first 30 seconds of the file input.fmt2 into output.fmt2.

Trim a media file using start and stop times

To trim down a video to smaller clip using start and stop times, we can use the following command.

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:50 -codec copy -t 50 output.mp4

Here,

• –ss – Indicates the starting time of the video clip. In our example, starting time is the 50th second.
• -t – Indicates the total time duration.

This is very helpful when you want to cut a part from an audio or video file using starting and ending time.

Similarly, we can trim down the audio file like below.

$ ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -ss 00:01:54 -t 00:06:53 -c copy output.mp3