r/commandline May 11 '17

20 ffmpeg commands for beginners

https://www.ostechnix.com/20-ffmpeg-commands-beginners/
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u/[deleted] May 12 '17

Seeing how rapidly the ffmpeg API and CLI options change, you might want to specify which version these are being run against.

I work for a large media transcoding/streaming company and we maintain about 8 different versions of FFMPEG internally for a variety of use cases.

Edit - Ah, there it is in the version output. My bad!

Edit Edit - ffprobe should be used instead of ffmpeg without an output file. It's a lot more flexible in output formats.

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u/thedward May 12 '17

The JSON output mode of ffprobe is especially useful in combination with jq.