FFmpeg Cookbook
Note to self,
Get info for a video file,
ffmpeg -i video.avi
Convert a set of images to a video sequence,
ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg
Convert a video to a set of images,
ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg
Extract audio from the video,
ffmpeg -i source_video.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 sound.mp3
Encode one format to another such as .avi to .mpg,
ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi video_finale.mpg
Compress using divx,
ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -s 320x240 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 video_finale.avi
To record your desktop screen,
ffmpeg -r 30 -s 1280x720 -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -qscale 1 filename.avi
To scale, rotate and encode,
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=1,scale=360:640" -qscale 1 -i 1.MOV -vcodec msmpeg4v2 video_finale.avi