FFmpeg

Published At: August 8, 2024

FFmpeg is a free, open source project for working with multimedia. It's frequently thought of as a single program, but in reality it's a massive suite of utilities and libraries that are used by countless platforms and applications. The name comes from a combination of "Fast Forward" and MPEG, the Moving Pictures Experts Group.

Examples with FFmpeg:

• Convert MP4 to HLS format with FFmpeg
• Convert MOV to HLS format with FFmpeg
• Extract thumbnails from a video with FFmpeg
• Stitch multiple videos together with FFmpeg
• Clip sections of a video with FFmpeg
• Extract audio from a video file with FFmpeg
• Add watermarks to a video with FFmpeg
• Merge audio and video files with FFmpeg

Related Terms:

• Encoding