FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and command-line tools for processing multimedia content.
It provides a common toolkit for working with audio, video, subtitles, containers, metadata, capture devices and network streams. The project is widely used directly from the shell and as an underlying multimedia component in other applications. Its core tools cover conversion, playback and detailed media inspection, while its libraries expose the same building blocks to developers.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Convert audio and video between a very large range of codecs and container formats.
- Record from supported cameras, screens, sound devices and other capture inputs.
- Stream multimedia over supported network protocols and remultiplex streams without unnecessary transcoding.
- Use complex filter graphs to transform, combine and route audio and video.
- Scale, crop, rotate, overlay and otherwise process video frames.
- Resample, mix, normalise and transform audio as part of processing pipelines.
- Extract, map, replace or remove individual audio, video, subtitle and data streams.
- Read and write metadata for supported media formats.
- Inspect containers, streams, codecs and metadata with ffprobe.
- Preview multimedia with the lightweight ffplay player.
- Perform frame-rate, pixel-format and colour-space conversion.
- Use hardware acceleration interfaces for decoding, encoding and processing where supported.
- Process image sequences and generate video from still images.
- Copy compatible streams between containers without decoding and re-encoding them.
- Concatenate, split and trim media as part of scripted processing workflows.
- Burn subtitles into video or preserve subtitle streams in compatible containers.
- Automate repeatable multimedia workflows easily from shell scripts and other programs.
- Provides reusable libraries for codecs, formats, filtering, devices, scaling and resampling.
Website: github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
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Developer: FFmpeg developers and contributors
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
FFmpeg is written in C and Assembly. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Assembly with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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Total pants, no longer makes videos that play on my DVD or TV.
Sounds like your system is broken.
WinFF is a great GUI (“Graphical User Interface”) front-end for FFmpeg.
If that fails, then try HandBrake.
WinFF has its own page as does HandBrake.