ffmpeg¶

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates¶

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA: ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with: ffmpeg -formats

Convert WAV to MP3, mix down to mono (use 1 audio channel), set bit rate to 64 kbps and sample rate to 22050 Hz: ffmpeg -i input.wav -ac 1 -ab 64000 -ar 22050 output.mp3

Convert any MP3 file to WAV 16khz mono 16bit: ffmpeg -i 111.mp3 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 out.wav

Convert any MP3 file to WAV 20khz mono 16bit for ADDAC WAV Player: ffmpeg -i 111.mp3 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 22050 out.wav cd into dir for batch process: for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 22050 "${i%.mp3}-encoded.wav"; done

Picking the 30 seconds fragment at an offset of 1 minute: In seconds ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ss 60 -t 30 output.wav

In HH:MM:SS format ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ss 0:01:00 -t 0:00:30 output.wav

Extract Audio¶

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -f mp3 -ab 192000 -vn music.mp3

The -i option in the above command is simple: it is the path to the input file. The second option -f mp3 tells ffmpeg that the ouput is in mp3 format. The third option i.e -ab 192000 tells ffmpeg that we want the output to be encoded at 192Kbps and -vn tells ffmpeg that we dont want video. The last param is the name of the output file.

You say you want to “extract audio from them (mp3 or ogg)”. But what if the audio in the mp4 file is not one of those? you’d have to transcode anyway. So why not leave the audio format detection up to ffmpeg?

To convert one file:

ffmpeg -i videofile.mp4 -vn -acodec libvorbis audiofile.ogg

To convert many files:

for vid in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$vid" -vn -acodec libvorbis "${vid%.mp4}.ogg"; done

You can of course select any ffmpeg parameters for audio encoding that you like, to set things like bitrate and so on.

Use -acodec libmp3lame and change the extension from .ogg to .mp3 for mp3 encoding.

If what you want is to really extract the audio, you can simply “copy” the audio track to a file using -acodec copy. Of course, the main difference is that transcoding is slow and cpu-intensive, while copying is really quick as you’re just moving bytes from one file to another. Here’s how to copy just the audio track (assuming it’s in mp3 format):

ffmpeg -i videofile.mp4 -vn -acodec copy audiofile.mp3

Note that in this case, the audiofile format has to be consistent with what the container has (i.e. if the audio is AAC format, you have to say audiofile.aac). You can use the ffprobe command to see which formats you have, this may provide some information:

for file in *; do ffprobe $file 2>&1 |grep Audio; done

A possible way to automatically parse the audio codec and name the audio file accordingly would be:

for file in *mp4 *avi; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -vn -acodec copy "$file".ffprobe “$file” 2>&1 |sed -rn ‘s/.Audio: (…), ./1/p’; done

Note that this command uses sed to parse output from ffprobe for each file, it assumes a 3-letter audio codec name (e.g. mp3, ogg, aac) and will break with anything different.

Encoding multiple files

You can use a Bash “for loop” to encode all files in a directory:

$ mkdir newfiles $ for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -codec:v copy -codec:a libmp3lame -q:a 2 newfiles/"${f%.m4a}.mp3"; done

ffmpeg -i input.m4a -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k output.mp3 m4a to mp3 conversion with ffmpeg and lame

A batch file version of the same command would be: for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k "${f%.m4a}.mp3"; done

Merge Multiple Videos¶

file names in folder, if they contain spaces, must be properly escaped ls * | perl -ne 'print "file $_"' | ffmpeg -f concat -i - -c copy merged.mp4

Split a Video into Images¶

$ ffmpeg -i video.flv image%d.jpg

Convert Images into a Video¶

$ ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg imagestovideo.mpg

Convert mp4 to webm¶

$ ffmpeg -i example.mp4 -f webm -c:v libvpx -b:v 1M -acodec libvorbis example.webm -hide_bannermore info

Simple FLAC convert¶

ffmpeg -i audio.xxx -c:a flac audio.flac

To Encode or Re-encode ?¶

Do you need to cut video with re-encoding or without re-encoding mode? You can try to following below command. Synopsis: ffmpeg -i [input_file] -ss [start_seconds] -t [duration_seconds] [output_file]

use FFmpeg cut mp4 video without re-encoding¶

Example: ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -ss 00:00:05 -t 00:00:10 -c copy cut_video.mp4

use FFmpeg cut mp4 video with re-encoding¶

Example: ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -ss 00:00:05 -t 00:00:10 -async 1 -strict -2 cut_video.mp4

If you want to cut off section from the beginning, simply drop -t 00:00:10 from the command

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