FFmpeg in 100 Seconds

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FFmpeg is a legendary multimedia processing tool used to edit audio and video files programmatically. It can covert and transform over 100 different codecs and is integrated into many applications under the hood.
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@pokefreak2112 Жыл бұрын

Bellard is *the most* underrated programmer imo. ffmpeg, qemu, tcc and quickjs are all awesome software I discovered independently before realizing they were written by the same guy

@lucasrdrgs Жыл бұрын

Not to mention his π approximation world record in 2009 with TachusPi.

@Pieloaf Жыл бұрын

TIL they were all written by the same guy, holy fuck 😳

@AXBA92 Жыл бұрын

what the actual fuck.....

@markzuckerbread1865 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of them before, time to check them out!

@voxelfusion9894 Жыл бұрын

@@markzuckerbread1865 damn, surely you've at least heard of qemu, it's an engine for virtual machines.

@hyperpug2898 Жыл бұрын

The cool thing is that it's also so fast you can use it with live footage. Once I used ffmpeg to rotate my webcam footage by 90°. Worked flawlessly.

@mash808 Жыл бұрын

Woah. Now that's cool.

@kolupsy Жыл бұрын

I have been wondering how do you stream in the webcam input and make platforms detect the output from ffmpeg as webcam footage? This would be a fun thing for zoom or teams meetings

@grzeskop5382 Жыл бұрын

@@kolupsy On linux you can make ffmpeg output to a virtual webcam via v4l2loopback device, I use it to stream the footage from my laptops webcam to my PC. There is probably an equivalent for other platforms

@lister_of_smeg6545 Жыл бұрын

That's fast because you don't need to re-encode - you're just setting a flag in the bitstream.

@1funnygame Жыл бұрын

@@kolupsy OBS can do that for you

@PCMau5 Жыл бұрын

FFmpeg is so useful in the VFX/CG industry, it's used for converting textures, encoding reviewables from several different outputs, adapting output with stuff like slates and overlay data for client review, subtitles, using FFprobe for capture certain EXR metadata, the list could really go on for paragraphs. It really tells you something when FFmpeg is far more flexible and useful than Autodesk's RVIO, which costs thousands for licenses and doesn't even have 5% of the functionality of FFmpeg.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but Autodesk has by far the bigger advertising budget. Telling people how wonderful you are tends to count for more than actually putting out a superior product.

@jonathanalonso6492 Жыл бұрын

It's because of how (relatively) pretty and easy-to-use RVIO is, compared to ffmpeg. Don't get me wrong, it's one of the first things I install on my fresh Linux installs, but the CLI interface is not for the faint of heart.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanalonso6492 Point-and-click maybe OK for one-off tasks, not so good for things you need to do a hundred times a day. Then you discover that GUIs cannot be automated.

@jonathanalonso6492 Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Absolutely, but I was discussing the marketability of GUI-style programs, and why they are more successful, compared to CLI-style programs, at least in the context of the average Joes and Janes.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanalonso6492 The successful businesses are the ones that produce quality results. Are you really going to pay for someone to perform a manual process over and over? Automation is what computers are for!

@cogmonocle2140 Жыл бұрын

as someone who works with the C api, ffmpeg is the tool I have the strongest love-hate relationship with. The api can be an absolute struggle at times, but it's incredible that we have such a powerful open source tool at our disposal.

@danielegvi Жыл бұрын

I always thought of ffmpeg as purely a command line tool. If I was looking for a library to make applications with, I’d go for GStreamer

@christopherneufelt8971 Жыл бұрын

All the video editing software today are just wrappers of ffmpeg.

@crackwitz Жыл бұрын

@@christopherneufelt8971 except for the commercial software

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

I’ve never felt the need to use the C API. One project I did involved extracting telemetry data (accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS) from videos captured from GoPro cameras. I wrote a Python script which called ffprobe to identify the right streams and the exact locations of the data packets and their timestamps, then I could read those parts of the video file directly and decode the packets using the standard “struct” library.

@RianPrakoso91 Жыл бұрын

gstreamer is much easier tool for c imo

@GDColon Жыл бұрын

Video editing aside, I can plug a video in it with zero arguments and it some how comes out with a ~80% smaller file size and no noticeable quality loss. That alone is such a game changer, I've got a right click script for it and everything

@cub1cc Жыл бұрын

i love gd cologne

@simulping4371 Жыл бұрын

maybe for the untrained eye it is unnoticeable, but those with more experience will fine tune their settings

@gez_4515 Жыл бұрын

@@simulping4371 FFmpeg does a lot of optimizations like removing duplicate frames for example. You can also tell it to use more advanced feature sets of video encoders, giving you even better quality at the same bitrate.

@SomeRandomPiggo Жыл бұрын

hello square jumper

@ImNetheN Жыл бұрын

h g D:

@christopherneufelt8971 Жыл бұрын

ffmpeg is a very hard workhorse that few recognise and the giants abuse by call it theirs. Literarally its coding is everywhere on media players with many times included without even open source acknowledgement. Most of the video editing software around is just recompiled wrappers of this gem. P.S. I did my university project in mpeg long time ago (compression and decompression of bytestream using fft2 and performance analytics).

@Richard-jm3um 6 ай бұрын

Is there somewhere I can read more about this?

@RMDK22 4 ай бұрын

what grade u got on that project sir?

@eegoal Жыл бұрын

Ffmpeg is one of those tools I just cant live without. I have many aliases set up and they make my life way easier

@CrunchPlaysGames Жыл бұрын

Mind sharing some examples?

@zerdf Жыл бұрын

Following this thread in case an answer comes up, quite interested to know how a lambda person can use it

@a.yashwanth Жыл бұрын

@@zerdf how do you follow a thread?

@alenpaulvarghese Жыл бұрын

@@a.yashwanth just by commenting on it

@indorexian Жыл бұрын

@@zerdfgood idea

@anon_y_mousse Жыл бұрын

It's such a complex program that it would take 100 hours to fully explain how to use it, yet 100 seconds can give you enough of the basics to allow most people to use it as they need it on a daily basis. The only thing I would've added is that the order of arguments matter.

@JoshuaG Жыл бұрын

2:05 Still cracks me up everytime seeing that 'ASS' file, LMAO😂🤣

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

Google’s Play Store actually banned an app using this library, supposedly for violating the “Sexual Content and Profanity Policy”.

@davidd.larred7238 3 ай бұрын

Jajaja

@theGamer93 Жыл бұрын

I use this since I got into Linux in 2008 and I even teach all my friends how to use it. Since all of these Converter Tools are nothing else then FFmpeg with adware.

@nicholasfinch4087 Жыл бұрын

I remember searching for a decent converter back in the early 2000s, I swear Advertisers were working really hard to push ffmpeg aside for their shit quality software. I didn't find ffmpeg until much later.

@Robert08010 8 ай бұрын

I thought they only supplied a front end and used FFmpeg behind the scenes. @@nicholasfinch4087

@Juliodax 5 ай бұрын

Exactly!!!!.

@gmanIL Жыл бұрын

FFMPeg is the goat. our entire company's video infrastructure is relaying on it and it works amazing. There are so many options is really crazy to think about the work that went into this tool.

@krismatic_ Жыл бұрын

I knew it was powerful but this is just unreal. Thanks as always for the incredible content.

@jodufan8754 Жыл бұрын

Ffmpeg is one of the most powerful programs i know! I've never seen a program learning Curve similar to it! From the simplest cutting or converting of Videos to gpu based live Resolution encoding for rtmp! Such a powerful tool!!

@FadlySansan 10 ай бұрын

Ffmpeg is a blessing. That is the thing that solidified my programming journey at its beginning.

@deoarlo Жыл бұрын

So glad FFMPEG is getting the recognition it deserves. Had been using it since day one and lovin it eversince

@cornhustlah Жыл бұрын

bruh your editing and design just keeps getting better and better 👀💕👏

@iamstickfigure Жыл бұрын

I'm very pleased that you included the bit about ass files. Lol. At a previous dev job, I worked a lot with video and ffmpeg, and one of the things I worked on was ways to burn-in subtitles into videos, and the fact that everything had to be converted into ass files really tickled me. I still can't believe that "Advanced Substation Alpha" somehow ended up being "ass"

@sodiboo Жыл бұрын

when i wanted to write subtitles i had to pick a format. knowing nothing, i picked .ass because it had some features i wanted and the file extension. later learned it's like the industry standard or something

@justapleb7096 Ай бұрын

@@sodiboo it is industry standard but at the same time it's also the least supported subtitle format on TV hardware . . . try finding a TV that can natively play .ass subtitles without relying on another machine to transcode it.

@DarkNexarius Жыл бұрын

ffmpeg is really good. I use it to create partially transparent videos (rgb + alpha channel). Those can be imported in basically any video editor. They work in OBS too. I'm using the codec "qtrle" and output format "mov".

@illuminoeye_gaming Жыл бұрын

it can handle literally anything and i love it for that. the guy who made it is the saviour of media buffs

@IgorogI1000 Жыл бұрын

ffmpeg is so great. the level of control it gives you makes you save so much time

@TheMythh Жыл бұрын

I found out about ffmpeg 5 years ago when i had to split a movie in two so i can upload it on disks for my grandfather to watch on his entertainment system, i've been in love with it since.

@CedricsSpecialLP Жыл бұрын

When you also have youtube-dl and put the ffmpeg executable in the same directory, you have the ultimate tool for downloading videos from the internet. That’s because youtube-dl has certain actions written into it, that will be automatically done by ffmpeg like merging the audio and video file of a downloaded KZfaq video together (since with high-resolution downloads audio and video are two separate files).

@Rudxain Жыл бұрын

I use it for the opposite: extract audio from audio-video files

@JonasTisell Жыл бұрын

@@RudxainSame. I'd use it more if it wasn’t so slow though. The KZfaq downloaders on the web are much more efficient

@hoodb0 Жыл бұрын

@@JonasTisell yt-dlp fixes most speed issues, at least for me

@JonasTisell Жыл бұрын

@@hoodb0 I'll try it, thanks for the tip

@bonbonbonbons 8 ай бұрын

@@hoodb0use aria2c as external downloader

@vizonex4316 Жыл бұрын

I use this to compress my videos on discord, It saves me a lot of time and trips to visiting websites that might track you. I also started using VLC ever since Microsoft changed their groovy app to the media player (they might have added more telemetry). Best decisions I've ever made!

@syntaxerror831 Жыл бұрын

Litterally used ffmpeg today. Loving the content!

@fred.flintstone4099 Жыл бұрын

FFmpeg is a bit to video what ImageMagick is to images. There is also another audio/video library called GStreamer which I think is a bit like FFmpeg but I guess more oriented towards playback than encoding.

@zerolelouch22 Жыл бұрын

I've been working on my own project to code a FFMPEG library for personal use. The idea is to essentially create an audio DSP that will take in audio formats / streams and process them to an output. Goal is to make an exec that can run on a raspberry pi and use it like a digital pedal board. Just working on the physical parts now :D

@luisponce3580 Жыл бұрын

This is literally crazy, I just started using FFmpeg and this video comes up from fireship

@ManthaarJanyaro Жыл бұрын

I have been using ffmpeg for more than 10 years, and I really love ffmpeg.

@Panakotta000 Жыл бұрын

I just got started with ffmpeg libraries 1 week ago to export image sequences instead of multiple images as a single video file And now you make a video about it xD

@draido-dev Жыл бұрын

this video is so epic, epic enough to say that it was rendered with ffmpeg premier

@dmytrk Жыл бұрын

One of the best open-source projects I use regularly

@AceofSpades5757 Жыл бұрын

This is such an incredible tool. Truly amazing.

@JustPyroYT Жыл бұрын

_____ In 100 seconds is the best series on this channel 👍

@nirmalthomasmathew Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. I always wanted to learn more about this since wasm!

@bilalkorir2070 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the FFmpeg intro

@kyryllvlasiuk Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind full 1h course on this

@VarunGupta3009 Жыл бұрын

Even after using ffmpeg for over 200 hours I find this 100s video so informative.

@AmansLab Жыл бұрын

Currently using FFmpeg in my projects, It is just awesome

@MohsenFarajYT Жыл бұрын

I'm starting to believe that you are an alien or some sort of AI who found out a way to get out of the computer. I tried hard to learn FFMPEG but I was always confused by what the hell is going on with commands... you explained like its NOTHING! bruh... even toddlers can use your videos and become a developer. any way thank you very much ♥ keep up the great content as always. we really need you! =)

@mash808 Жыл бұрын

As a toddler who is also a developer I concur.

@Smirnoff67 Жыл бұрын

He just read the API description and exemple, there is nothing special about it you know. What he just showed are really the most basic command of ffmpeg

@biz0r07 Жыл бұрын

Props for using a clip of Arnold from the movie Commando, love that movie

@shep9194 Жыл бұрын

Jesus i actually needed this. I keep seeing it everywhere but have no idea what it is

@wadecodez Жыл бұрын

Ffmpeg is surprisingly well documented too. Made a dirty script in the past that automatically color graded clips based on the folder they were placed in.

@3vonline Жыл бұрын

Great info on the subject brother!

@davidweinstein1943 3 ай бұрын

this video is so well designed!

@jgcodes2020 Жыл бұрын

As a library, FFmpeg is a godsend for video encoding/decoding. It may seem slightly obtuse, but once you understand how it works, it's incredibly powerful.

@BlueyMcPhluey Жыл бұрын

amazing, I had no idea it was this easy to use

@tabletuser123 Жыл бұрын

This is something i didnt know i needed, epic

@iamanishkumar Жыл бұрын

This is just what I was searching!

@shapelessed Жыл бұрын

A yet another tool I didn't know I needed in my NodeJS video/media streaming server...

@mash808 Жыл бұрын

There's nodejs wrappers for it that people have made too. Good luck with your project! 😃

@xXZian6Xx Жыл бұрын

How did you not come across this when making a video streaming server? I've heard about this and I'm at backend

@shapelessed Жыл бұрын

@@xXZian6Xx Because it's more like half a streaming server half file server. It has a few editors in the web UI for opening different kids of files, though mainly for media.

@ricobytes786 Жыл бұрын

Yes but what about the license

@walterpark8824 Жыл бұрын

ffmpegcos terrific, and so's this video. I'm off to man to refresh my memory!

@MentionedBefore Жыл бұрын

I waited my whole life for this video

@vanviethieuanh2237 Жыл бұрын

You always publish video at the time that I really need it =))

@stef9019 Жыл бұрын

Wow didn't know about the subtitles one, that's dope

@gosnooky Жыл бұрын

FFMpeg is awesome. Surely it processed the very video we're watching

@niksingh710 Жыл бұрын

This guy creates shorts even before they existed..... And he gives knowledge too 😀

@kishanbsh Жыл бұрын

Never knew about ffplay before.. thanks

@Dr.Cosmar Жыл бұрын

I kinda needed this. Ty.

@olegsuvorov1467 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tool. I used it 10 yrs ago to make time-lapse videos from screenshots in games like gta 3 😁

@TheGreatestWorldFox Жыл бұрын

ffmpeg is what got me into the world of CLI apps by it's sheer usefulness.

@TomFoolery9001 Жыл бұрын

I didn't know it could do half that stuff, thanks!

@peter8261 Жыл бұрын

Used FFMPEG years ago to convert AVI to MP4. Super helpful at times.

@JarppaGuru 9 ай бұрын

yes it still do it. and app you use now use ffmpeg do it for sure LOL

@seatube327 Жыл бұрын

This is awesome! I used FFmpeg and GStreamer in an old project for streaming HD video from a high altitude balloon.

@jonasslettingjensen5032 Жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome! Do you have a public GitHub repository for it? I understand the basics of FFMPEG in the command line, but have never been able to use it in a project.

@seatube327 Жыл бұрын

@@jonasslettingjensen5032 I have a couple private repos that show how we used GStreamer, but I cant seem to find the script that used FFmpeg (I think we booted it up as a separate process to save the file to disk). If you'd like to see the GStreamer code I can share it with you. What's your GH handle?

@MustafaSaadi_ 3 ай бұрын

been using it for 6 years,,one of greatest tool to have in pc

@litwire Жыл бұрын

The legend is back 🎉

@trp_gang9869 Жыл бұрын

i was waiting for this

@mjdevlog Жыл бұрын

I hope you cover more of these cli only FLOSS😁😁

@mahand871 Жыл бұрын

wow I had no idea this existed this is a very powerful tool

@robertwallace5498 Жыл бұрын

this seems amazing, how have I never heard about this tool

@7heMech Жыл бұрын

Honestly pretty amazing.

@wlockuz4467 Жыл бұрын

FFMPEG is such a cool tool and it can do so many things, most of the time I don't even know what I want to make with it.

@dillonhansen71 Жыл бұрын

I never knew how cool ffmpeg was!

@nickolayfetlistov4416 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks!

@bp9696 Жыл бұрын

FFMPEG really rolls off the tongue fluidly

@supindersingh8882 Жыл бұрын

I used it in my video editor project recently.

@HITNUT Жыл бұрын

@harrysaliba1848 Жыл бұрын

id love to see a ZFS in 100 seconds!

@dragossusi Жыл бұрын

I just had to use ffmpeg today to convert a raw file into a MP4 file, it's so strange that the video came up around that time I needed it

@mack.attack Жыл бұрын

knowing how to replace audio or cut stuff out of a video without having to reencode it by using ffmpeg with the argument "-c:v copy" has saved me probably hundreds of hours

@ccj2 Жыл бұрын

Love FFmpeg so much, I was literally just using it yesterday to cut a video into segments. I’ve used it plenty of times to pull high res screenshots from my films. I’m thinking about creating some small tools (possibly both open source and for-profit) around it at some point to just help increase video production productivity.

@lbgstzockt8493 Жыл бұрын

FFMPEG is so powerful and ubiquitous that most video players just act as a GUI for it and many video tools in general are just extensions to it.

@Blaqw00D Жыл бұрын

I like how this is basically industry standard for multimedia

@artificialhits Жыл бұрын

FFmpeg rocks, I use it every day

@thejonte Жыл бұрын

FFMpeg is frickin amazing!

@VKD007 Жыл бұрын

Several years ago i used ffmpeg and PHP and js to build a online video convertor

@Valenciano118 Жыл бұрын

Small nitpick at the command shown at 1:46. If you try to run that command you probably won't get the result you're expecting. The video will probably not start at the timestamp you specified and it might last under 10 seconds or slightly above 10 seconds. This happens because of how video codecs work, usually you have a keyframe that contains a full image and the following frames until the next keyframe only contain the parts of the image that change. That's why if you copy the video, ffmpeg has to use those keyframes to make sure you don't get a video file that doesn't play properly. If you want to solve this you have to actually re-encode the video and ffmpeg will make sure to output exactly what you asked .

@GeorgeAlexanderTrebek Жыл бұрын

FFmpeg is amazing, so many uses.

@marlokessler Жыл бұрын

This is awesome!

@Karpefilm Жыл бұрын

I used use FFMPEG for making delivery files of ads for big digital screens. Whatever size or format.. ffmpeg never let me down

@ManthaarJanyaro Жыл бұрын

I would also recommend you to make a video on mp4box which is a part of GPAC.

@belogpolos Жыл бұрын

Fabrice Bellard also create Qemu. Awesome engineer.

@geeshta Жыл бұрын

What a legend

@jxmked Жыл бұрын

I did use ffmpeg to automatically remove duplicated frames, merge all videos and audio and create a timelapse-lofi screen recorded video in 1 night using my phone. All of those happening with right label for video and audio file then python automate things with ffmpeg.

@nowyouknow2249 3 ай бұрын

Did you use subprocess library in py

@scrubmunch5268 Жыл бұрын

im here tryna play some mpeg shit, I go to youtube looking for help and youve just posted a vid, fireship is king

@MikeDest Жыл бұрын

I've made a living since 2010 knowing a lot about FFmpeg and working for a major adult tube site. I've donated to the project, but probably should more often.

@user-us7rg4cd6p Жыл бұрын

too good. Thanks a lot

@NotTheHeroStudios Жыл бұрын

1. Why did I not know about this 2. This is exactly what I needed yesterday

@Kinos141 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, this is good to know.

@Robert08010 8 ай бұрын

I have 2 different versions of FFmpeg installed. I have version 2.2 installed specifically to support some features of Audacity. I also have version 6.0 (current version) installed. The problem is when I try to run FFmpeg, the old version runs. And I don't know what I have to do to make my system default to the new version instead.

@eddievalentin6678 8 ай бұрын

So how can i make a video still image + sound (audio file) lossless with ffmpeg? I want the still image video to sound just like the audio track/file if its possible, i dont want any transcoding. Also, i'd like to know if i can do it vp9 webm lossless if there is a way as well? im trying to make one single still image with sound (Music) video.