Upscale 1080p video to 4k with FFmpeg
How to easily upscale a 1080p video to 4k resolution using FFmpeg and a one-line command. The speed of the video upscale will depend on the video length, bitrate, your…
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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…
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…