March 28, 2020

FFmpeg encode percentage progress bar with PHP

Using an HTML progress bar to view FFmpeg video encode progress percentage, With the usage of Ajax and PHP to parse the FFMpeg output file. This method enables a web-based…

February 18, 2020

Adding audio to a video file with FFmpeg

Adding an audio file to a video with FFmpeg, this is achieved with mapping. The key to this is mapping. Video files can contain more than just a video and…

February 10, 2020

Adding metadata to a video or audio file with FFmpeg

Depending on a video or audio container it can store various metadata or information like title, description, year, author, episode, album, track etc. Using FFmpeg to add this metadata to…

January 10, 2020

Getting video resolution, bitrate, fps, size and more with ffprobe

FFmpeg can do a massive amount of things, getting video details can be done with FFmpeg however there is a special offspring from FFmpeg called ffprobe that is dedicated to…

January 9, 2020

FFmpeg h264 & h265 preset crf comparison 2020 (finale)

This comprehensive FFmpeg encoding comparison includes H.264 and H.265 HEVC from the fastest preset ultrafast through to veryslow with CRF values from 20 to 30. The posts have been split…

January 8, 2020

FFmpeg h265 preset crf comparison 2020 pt3 (totals)