Tutorial 01 - FFMPEG Download

Introduction

FFMPEG is a command line video editing software. Using which you can do the following thing

1. Record Screen
2. Record Video thru Web Camera
3. Convert Video to different formats
4. Merge and Split Video and Audio
5. Create Picture in Picture
6. Add Subtitles to video
7. Supports below hardware accleration for better and faster encoding and decoding
• Intel Quick Sync
• NVidea Codec
• Open CL
• Apple VDA
• Unix VDPAU(Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix)
• DirectX for Windows

etc. etc..

FFMPEG GUI

There are lots of Freeware which provides the GUI for video editing usig ffmpeg. Some of the actively worked tools are listed below

• Hand Break
• VLC

FFMPEG Download

FFMPEG is developed using C and C++ so there i a short of portability to different platforms. But to our surprise there are different vendors provide ffmpeg bundle to different platforms. If you are a newbie for this, it is highly encouraged to use one of those build instead of you building on your own.

Go to FFMPEG Download and please select the OS package according to your need and extract it to your Desktop/Laptop

Thanks for reading, moving on this tutorial will explain How To, What Issues can arrive, How to Solve it one by one.