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Useful FFmpeg
Commands
FFmpeg utility supports
almost all major audio
and video formats, if you
want to check the ffmpeg
supported available
formats you can use
./ffmpeg -formats
command to list all
supported formats. If you
are new to this tool, here
are some handy
commands that will give
you a better idea about
the capabilities of this
powerful tool.
1. Get Video File

Information
To get information about
a le (say video.mp4),  
run the following
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library versions. This 
option can be used to
suppress printing this
information.
For example, if you run

the above command
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Split Video into Images
After successful
execution of above
command you can verify
that the video turn into
multiple images using
following ls command.
$ ls -l
total 11648
-rw-r--r-- 1 tecmint tecmint 14592 Oct 19 13:19 image100.jpg
3. Convert
images into a
video
Turn number of images
to a video sequence, use
the following command.
This command will
transform all the images
from the current
directory (named
image1.jpg, image2.jpg,
etc…) to a video le
named
imagestovideo.mpg.
There are many other

image formats (such as
jpeg, png, jpg, etc) you
can use.
$ ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg imagestovideo.mpg
Convert Images to Video
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run the following
command.
$ ffmpeg -i video.flv -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 audio.mp3
Convert Video to Audio
Description about the

options used in above
command:
vn: helps to disable

video recording
during the
conversion.
ar: helps you set
audio sampling rate
in Hz.
ab: set the audio
bitrate.
ac: to set the number
of audio channels.
-f: format.
5. Covert v
video le to mpg
format
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following command.
$ ffmpeg -i video.flv video.mpg
Convert Avi to MPG Video Format
6. Convert video
into animated gif
To convert a . v video le
to animated,
uncompressed gif le,
use the command below.
$ ffmpeg -i video.flv animated.gif.mp4
Covert Video to Animated Gif

7. Convert mpg
video le to v
To convert a .mpg le to
. v format, use the
following command.
$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -ab 26k -f flv video1.flv
Convert Mpg to Flv Video Format
8. Convert avi
video le to mpeg
To convert a .avi le to
mpeg for dvd players, run
the command below:
$ ffmpeg -i video.avi -target pal-dvd -ps 2000000000 -aspect 16:9 video.mpeg
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command.
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Convert Avi to Mpeg Video Format
9. Convert a
video to CD or
DVD format
To create a video CD or
DVD, FFmpeg makes it
simple by letting you
specify a target type and
the format options
required automatically.
You can set a target type

as follows: add -target
type; type can of the
following be vcd, svcd,
dvd, dv, pal-vcd or ntsc-
svcd on the command
line.
To create a VCD, you can

run the following
command:
$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -target vcd vcd_video.mpg

Convert Video to DVD Format
10. Extract audio

from video le
To extract sound from a
video le, and save it as
Mp3 le, use the
following command:
$ ffmpeg -i video1.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 audio3.mp3
Explanation about the

command.
Source video :
video.avi
Audio bitrate :
192kb/s
output format : mp3
Generated sound :
audio3.mp3

Extract Audio from Video
11. Mix a video

and audio
together
You can also mix a video
with a sound le as
follows:
$ ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -i video.avi video_audio_mix.mpg
Mix Video and Audio
12.
Increase/Reduce
Video Playback
Speed
To increase video play
back speed, run this
command. The -vf option
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speed.
$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -vf "setpts=0.5*PTS" highspeed.mpg
Increase Video Playback Speed
You can also reduce

video speed as follows:
$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -vf "setpts=4.0*PTS" lowerspeed.mpg -hide_banner
Reduce Video Playback Speed
13.
Compare/Test
Video and Audio
Quality

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audios after converting
you can use the
commands below. This
helps you to test videos
and audio quality.
$ ffplay video1.mp4
Test Video Quality
To test audio quality

simply use the name of
the audio le as follows:
$ ffplay audio_filename1.mp3
Test Audio Quality
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14. Add Photo or

Banner to Audio
You can add a cover
poster or image to an
audio le using the
following command, this
comes very useful for
uploading MP3s to
YouTube.
$ ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.jpg -i Bryan\ Adams\ -\ Heaven.mp3 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -stri
Add Image to Audio
15. Add subtitles

to a Movie
If you have a separate
subtitle le called
subtitle.srt, you can use
following command to
add subtitle to a movie
le:
$ ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i subtitles.srt -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -prese
Summary
That is all for now but

these are just few
examples of using
FFmpeg, you can nd
more options for what
you wish to accomplish.
Remember to post a
comment to provide
information about how to
use FFmpeg or if you
have encountered errors
while using it.
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Rakesh Kr Satyam
 June 21, 2017 at 5:02 pm
Very useful.
Can we change/set codec value of
video le without compressing le.
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Aaron Kili
 June 23, 2017 at 10:59 am
@Rakesh
Yes, you can change/set the
codec of a video le without
compressing it. For
instance:
ffmpeg -i input.avi -vcodec
h264 output.avi
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Rakehsh Kr Satyam
 June 21, 2017 at 4:59 pm
Very useful.
Reply
shams  December 12, 2016 at 4:39 pm

Hi
How can we compress the output
image in ffmpeg. What parameter I
need to add to make it.
eg: ffmpeg -i input.jpg -vf
scale=320:240 output_320x240.png
I need compressed version of the
output image
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Aaron Kili
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pm
@shams
Make use of -
compression_level
especially for PNG output as
in the example command
above. The compression
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the default is 100, the

highest compression value
meaning that it offers the
smallest output le size. I
hope this will help.
Reply
bassel  October 29, 2016 at 3:30 pm

I have stupid question, if i just need
my visitor play video from my
website, why use ffmpeg to stream
video on my website if i just want
display a video
Reply
Adam  March 29, 2016 at 2:34 am

Thanks for sharing.Can you please
show me to convert avi video to :
(mediainfo) Format : MPEG-4
Format pro le : Base Media /
Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 57.7 MiB
Duration : 21mn 39s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 372 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2016-03-06
07:59:42
Tagged date : UTC 2016-03-06
07:59:42
gsst : 0
gstd : 1299690
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format pro le : Baseline@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=60
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video
Coding
Duration : 21mn 39s
Bit rate : 274 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 698 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 360 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.048
Stream size : 42.5 MiB (74%)
07:59:48
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format pro le : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 21mn 39s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 104 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 14.9 MiB (26%)
Title : IsoMedia File Produced by
Google, 5-11-2011
Encoded date : UTC 2016-03-06
07:59:45
07:59:48
Reply
Ravi Saive
  March 29, 2016 at 11:32 am
@Adam,
Try the following ffmpeg
command to convert AVI
les to MP4 as shown.
# ffmpeg -i le.avi -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_slow -crf 25 -acodec libfaac -threads 0 -t 60 le.mp4
Reply
Dennis  October 31, 2015 at 3:39 am

Thanks for this follow-up tutorial on
FFmpeg. FFmpeg isfor
Preparation anthe
excellent,
LFCE (Linux Foundation Certi ed Engineer) Exam
full-featured media toolkit, but its

total capabilities can be quite
overwhelming. The code examples
help with understanding and as a
starting point for further exploration.
Before using FFmpeg, I usually want

to know more about the input media
le formats I will be using. For this, I
usually use FFprobe (one of the
useful utility programs included with
the FFmpeg suite). FFprobe was
created to extract detailed
con guration info from a media le.
For example:
$ ffprobe -v quiet -pretty -of default -
show_format -show_streams
“video. v” > “video. v.info”
FFprobe will produce a nicely

formatted report saved to an output
le as documentation and for further
follow-up analysis. FFprobe can also
generate the report in several other
print formats (including JSON and
XML).
For repeat usage, I placed the above
FFprobe command in a script le,
and execute the script passing just
the input lename as a parameter.
The script handles the rest
(including creating the output
lename by appending ‘.info’ to the
input lename). The double-quotes
around the lenames are optional,
but are required if the lenames
contain spaces. Recommend
including double-quotes in the script
le to avoid later potential run-time
errors.
Reply
Aaron Kili K
 October 31, 2015 at 1:59 pm
@Dennis Thanks for the info
about FFprobe. It can help
new FFmpeg users to learn
more.
Reply
Hangover Man
 October 30, 2015 at 1:04 am
There are several errors: 1.
hide_banner is a global option, so it
should go before -i. 3. “-f image2” is
super uous. 4. You really don’t need
any of those other options, and you
should have used -ab 192k, not -ab
192. 6. This example does not make
an animated GIF at all. 8. -ps does
not limit le size; -fs does, but you
shouldn’t use it anyway because it
will just end when it reaches the
speci ed limit. 10. The input already
was MP3, so stream copy would be
better (-c:a copy).
Reply
Aaron Kili K
 October 31, 2015 at 2:01 pm
@Hangover Man thanks for
catching the errors, hope
users will identify them and
use the options carefully.
Reply
K Raghunathan
 October 29, 2015 at 4:36 pm
Extremely useful. Thanks.
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Split Video into Images

There are many other

$ ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg imagestovideo.mpg

Convert Images to Video

Convert Video to Audio

Description about the

vn: helps to disable

$ ffmpeg -i video.flv video.mpg

Convert Avi to MPG Video Format

$ ffmpeg -i video.flv animated.gif.mp4

Covert Video to Animated Gif

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$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -ab 26k -f flv video1.flv

Convert Mpg to Flv Video Format

$ ffmpeg -i video.avi -target pal-dvd -ps 2000000000 -aspect 16:9 video.mpeg

Explanation about the

Convert Avi to Mpeg Video Format

You can set a target type

To create a VCD, you can

$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -target vcd vcd_video.mpg

Convert Video to DVD Format

10. Extract audio

Explanation about the

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Extract Audio from Video

11. Mix a video

$ ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -i video.avi video_audio_mix.mpg

Mix Video and Audio

$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -vf "setpts=0.5*PTS" highspeed.mpg

Increase Video Playback Speed

You can also reduce

$ ffmpeg -i video.mpg -vf "setpts=4.0*PTS" lowerspeed.mpg -hide_banner

Reduce Video Playback Speed

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Test Video Quality

To test audio quality

Test Audio Quality

You can listen to them

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Add Image to Audio

15. Add subtitles

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