FFmpeg

FFmpeg is open-source multimedia framework thay can be used for recording, converting, and streaming videos.

FFmpeg is command line program (no user interface)

Most common use case for FFmpeg:

• Convert videos from almost any format to almost any format
• Extract video frames into seperate images
• Trimming the begining or the end of a video
• Make a tinelapse video from many pictures
• Add or remove audio tracks to a video
• Mix different audio streams into one
• Resize a video scaling up or down, change the aspect of ratio
• Overlay videos, image or text
• Change frame rate and the speed of video
• Concatenate different videos one after another
• Create transitions between videos using fade in, fade out and other transitions
• Compress video file size by tuning certain parameters
• Improve video correcting brightness, color temperature, constrast, saturation

FFmpeg come with 3 command line tools:

• ffmpeg: used to edit/transform video or multimedia files
• ffprobe: used to inspect a video or multimedia files
• ffplay: used to play a multimedia file

FFmpeg command line structure:

ffmpeg

-y

-loop 1 -t 2

-i image.png

-pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264

output.pm4

• The red part are global options
• The green part are the input options
• The blue part is the input file
• The orange part are output options
• The magenta part is output file