It's console-based, but basic operations are easy, and if you're tired of the usual underpowered adware-packed freeware (many of which use FFmpeg under the hood anyway) then it's well worth a look. Verdict:įFmpeg is the gold standard for media conversion, streaming and processing in general. But you don't have to use that, and even if you only ever learn -i, that's still probably enough to justify the download. There are a vast number of other commands to specify frames, resolutions, codecs, to define exactly how everything is processed, and that really can get complicated. Of course this is only a fraction of what you need. Using video.mp3 will extract only the soundtrack, or video.gif will save it as an animated GIF.įFmpeg supports a vast number of formats, too, which is why it's the power behind many, perhaps most of the freeware conversion tools around (typically they're just front ends which allow you to specify a file, then pass the results to a local copy of ffmpeg.exe). It is a command line video software for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Need an MPG instead? Just specify video.mpg as the second file name. FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert, edit and stream audio and video. Look at this:Īs you can probably guess, the -i tells ffmpeg that video.avi is the input file, and it converts that and saves it to video.mp4. Although FFmpeg requires a little work to learn, you can still get productive very quickly. That "command line" will put many people off, and of course it does mean that the program is more difficult to use than a GUI converter. Well, should anyone end up here with the same question, do yourself a favour and go with Handbrake, you won't regret it.FFmpeg is an astonishingly powerful open source command line tool for converting, streaming and recording audio and video. I've been using it for years and not only it never disappointed me once, but with the time it only got better. Handbrake is WAY more solid and reliable. Anyway I played with it for some time, but when I saw it failing again at a small transcoding task I decided it was not for me. Unfortunately the software is a bit of a mess, it tries to pull too many things at the same time while failing at the most basic stuff like calculating correct file sizes for different formats and resolutions. The only thing that stopped me from doing that is that I didn't have with me my credit card, so I thought I would do that later and I went on downloading the software.īut then, when I tried it. to the point that after reading the list of its features I was going to make a donation BEFORE trying the software. After visiting the webpage I was almost sure it was an amazing piece of software.
Out of curiosity I tried this Shutter Encoder.
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