FFmpeg
Open source multimedia suite for conversion, playback, profiling, and streaming.
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What is FFmpeg?
FFmpeg is an open source project that develops libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. FFmpeg is the home to libavcodec, a codec library used by a large spectrum of programs, and libavformat, a mux and demux library for containers. The project develops 4 command-line programs; ffmpeg, the central tool for transcoding multimedia files, as well as ffplay, a simple media player for previewing files, ffprobe, a profiling tool for scanning containers, and ffserver, a network streaming server.
FFmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled).
FFmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled).
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Video & Movies • Photos & Graphics • OS & Utilities • File ManagementTags
- codecs
- video-encoding
- splitters
- tag-editor
- video-transcoder
- post-processor
- multimedia-framework
- video-decoding
- media-info
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- Developed by FFmpeg Team
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- Average rating of 3.8
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None of the free video recording programs I have used did deinterlace the video.
But this software does.
I am using a bat-file deinterlace all .m2t files in a folder and convert to .mkv files:
Example 1, convert from 1080i50 to 1080p50:
REM bat-file for convert all m2t 1080i files to mkv 1080p
for %%A IN (*.m2t) DO ffmpeg -i "%%A" -vf yadif=1,format=yuv420p -c:v libx264 -vb 25000k -minrate 25000k -maxrate 25000k -bufsize 25000k -aspect "1920:1080" -r 50 -c:a aac -b:a 384k "%%A.mkv"
Example 2, convert from 1080i50 to 720p50:
for %%A IN (*.m2t) DO ffmpeg -i "%%A" -vf "yadif=1, scale=1280:720" -c:v libx264 -preset medium -tune film -crf 10 -minrate 0 -maxrate 25000k -bufsize 25000k -aspect "1280:720" -r 50 -c:a copy "%%A.mkv"
[Edited by SveinM, June 09]
This is at the core of many video editing/transcoding applications.
CLI editors for videos and images are insane or very special purpose.
FFmpeg is not exception.
This tool is integrated into so many commercial products without getting much acknowledgement. It has a steep learning curve but with a few simple example searches it can replace nearly all video and some image manipulation paid apps.
Very useful for any format, even screenshot and capture TV cards
As title states. Its even used to transcode videos from images in space as well
Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/6evjn6/in_depth_flyby_of_jupiter/