Tutorial 02 - Basic Options of FFMPEG

This document explains about the basic options which helps to understand the ffmpeg usage

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• Codec
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• Logging
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When ever you run the ffmpeg, it displays all the configuration details using which it is build, in case if you do not want that to be printed in the console you can use the option (-hide_banner)

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cmd: 

C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg

Output:

ffmpeg version N-79107-g30d1213 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers

  built with gcc 5.3.0 (GCC)

  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enabl

le-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmfx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp

ibtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvi

  libavutil      55. 19.100 / 55. 19.100

  libavcodec     57. 28.103 / 57. 28.103

  libavformat    57. 29.100 / 57. 29.100

  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101

  libavfilter     6. 39.102 /  6. 39.102

  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100

  libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101

  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100

Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

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cmd: 

C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg -hide_banner

Output:

Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder                                                     

usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...