Jul 22, 2011 · The FFmpeg CLI (we usually reffer to it as ffmpeg.c to avoid confusion) has speed-up improvements due to threading, as well as statistics options, and the ability to pass option …

FFmpeg has always been a very experimental and developer-driven project. It is a key component in many multimedia projects and has new features added constantly.

2 days ago · ffmpeg builds a transcoding pipeline out of the components listed below. The program’s operation then consists of input data chunks flowing from the sources down the …

The following documentation is regenerated nightly, and corresponds to the newest FFmpeg revision. Consult your locally installed documentation for older versions.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.

Jan 28, 2025 · This Wiki is intended for all kinds of FFmpeg and multimedia related information. Everyone is welcome to add to, edit and improve it!

2 days ago · FFmpeg can make use of the OpenH264 library for H.264 decoding and encoding. Go to http://www.openh264.org/ and follow the instructions for installing the library.

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process …

2 days ago · FFmpeg has a concat protocol designed specifically for that, with examples in the documentation. A few multimedia containers (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 PS, DV) allow one to …

Jun 22, 2025 · You can see what you are using by referring to the ffmpeg console output during encoding (yuv420p or similar for 8-bit, and yuv420p10le or similar for 10-bit). 8-bit is more …