Top 17 FFmpeg commands of video processing

Power up your skills in video processing

Here I’ve collected the most common questions you may be interested in. If you don’t understand the FFmpeg syntax, I strongly recommend reading this article before:

How to process video with FFmpeg. Framework syntax from Zero to Hero.

🧭 Prerequisites

Here I provided the particular commands against some media files that you may find in the Github repository here. All commands provided during tips have been successfully tested on MacBook Pro with macOS Monterey 12.5.1 and the version of FFmpeg is 5.0.1. I suppose that it will be a pretty convenient way to get your hands dirty during reading and bring a lot of enjoyment.

You just need to download the repository and run all commands mentioned in the article from the root of this project.

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03. How to extract an audio stream from a video
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