FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
Homepage:	http://www.ffmpeg.org/
Status:	Maintained ✅
License:	LGPL or GPL
Platforms:	Linux, macOS, PC
Input Formats:	AAC, MPEG-4, VOB, AVI, MOV, MKV
Output Formats:	AAC, MPEG-4, AVI, MOV, MKV
Function:	File Format Migration
Content type:	Audio,Video

Description

FFmpeg is "A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.". Capable of conversion between formats, combining or separating video and audio streams, snipping parts of video and audio streams, and more.

Links

• Homepage
• Documentation

Related Tools

• See examples and a cookbook of archivist-specific FFmpeg tasks such as changing container format, transcoding to an access file, changing video or audio properties, creating or joining excerpts, creating frame- or stream-level checksums at ffmprovisr.
• ffmpeg.guide - A simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly, without having to mess with the cumbersome filter syntax.
• QCTools is built using FFmpeg's four evaluative filters: signalstats, cropdetect, psnr, and ebur128.

Development Activity

See the Changelog for recent changes.