ffmpeg cheatsheet

ffmpeg cheatsheet

ffmpeg is one of the most advanced tools in Linux that has helped me through the years to do various things like

1. extract audio from video,
2. boost up the volume,
3. trim out first few seconds, or
4. last few minutes
5. and much more.

This is from table of contents in the cheatsheet.

• Basic conversion
• Remux an MKV file into MP4
• High-quality encoding
• Trimming
• Mux video and audio from another video
• Concat demuxer
• Delay audio/video
• Burn subtitles
• Extract the frames from a video
• Rotate a video
• Download "Transport Stream" video streams
• Mute some of the audio
• Deinterlace
• Create a video slideshow from images
• Extract images from a video
• Metadata: Change the title
• Numbered images to video:
• Concatenate multiple videos into one
• Speed up a video
• Extract audio from .MKV to .MP3
• Recording
• Cropping
• Extracting Audio Stream
• Handling id3 tags
• Resample/Convert Audio

I have used ffmpeg for creating shell scripts to do preroll and postroll of ads in a podcast for a client in Paris.

I cannot get by without this as usually I download a video from youtube using youtube-dl or yt-dlp and extract the audio portion.

If any of the commands in the cheatsheet do not work please get in touch with me and I can help you.