Cutting video into segments with timestamp as filename FFmpeg & PHP
Cutting a video into even segments and using the start and end time of the segment as its filename with FFmpeg and PHP. For this you will need the length…
Tag: FFmpeg
Getting video bitrate with FFprobe
A simple method to get the bitrate of a video using FFprobe which comes with FFmpeg. The command: ffprobe -v quiet -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 inputvideo.mp4 -v quiet…
Adding more audio tracks to a video with FFmpeg
Add another audio track to a video file with FFmpeg. This will give you the option to change the audio track in a video player whilst keeping the video flowing….
Add new audio to a video with FFmpeg
Add an audio file to a video, overwriting existing audio with FFmpeg. This method will overwrite any existing audio on the video inputvideo.mp4 and replace it with audiotoadd.mp3 ffmpeg -i…
Doing 2 pass encoding with FFmpeg
Understanding what two-pass video encoding is, why use it and how to do two-pass video encoding with FFmpeg. Two-pass compared to one-pass Two-pass media encoding means on the first pass…
Creating a shifting watermark overlay with FFmpeg
Create a dynamic, shifting watermark that moves around a video using FFmpeg. This is similar to what TikTok uses and helps prevent the watermark from easily being blurred out or…
Create a video trim command from a slider concept
A concept to create a video trim FFmpeg command by using a slider to view the video at a start and end timeframe. The easy slider integration is with the…
Create video thumbnail from a slider concept
A concept to manually create a thumbnail from a video by using a slider to view the video at a certain timestamp. The easy slider integration is from the noUiSlider…
A guide to upscaling or downscaling video with FFmpeg
How to do video scaling using FFmpeg with examples for different types of upscaling and downscaling methods. Scaling a video means to make it either larger (higher resolution) or smaller…
FFmpeg h264 & h265 to WebM VP9 encoding comparison part 10; Screenshots
This part 10 has FFmpeg screenshots from the output WebM files from both h264 and h265 for CRF values 15, 22 and 30 with -cpu-used 0 to 5 and -deadline…