Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg
About This Book
FFmpeg is a free, open source tool for processing audio and video on Linux, Mac and Windows, and this book teaches readers to use it to create, edit, modify and convert multimedia files. By the end, readers should be able to work with video, audio, images, text, animations, fonts, subtitles and metadata with confidence. The book starts with a straightforward introduction to the three FFmpeg executables, ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay, and shows how to use them with multimedia containers, streams, audio channels, maps and metadata. It then explains how to edit, enhance and convert audio, video, image and text files. Separate chapters are devoted to filters, audio, subtitles and metadata, and there is also a chapter of tips and tricks. The appendices include sample lists of FFmpeg filters, encoders, decoders, formats and codecs. The guide is for anyone who has to edit or process multimedia files: studio professionals, broadcast staff, content creators, bloggers, YouTubers and hobbyists working on their own material, podcasters, librarians, archivists, webmasters and regular Linux desktop users. It is especially useful for those who want to handle many kinds of media from the command line, in shell scripts or in custom-built software.
ISBN: 9781484287002
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