FFmpeg – The Complete Guide

Comprehensive introduction to FFmpeg, media transcoding and filter graphs, with practical examples and hands-on demos

What you’ll learn

Have a crystal clear understanding of FFmpeg architecture and internal pipeline.
Construct complex filter graphs to manipulate media.
Understand what happens during transcoding.
Get a good overview of FFmpeg and its applications.
Set up FFmpeg on popular operating systems.
Inspect any media with ffprobe to extract valuable information.
Play audio/video with ffplay from the command line.
Learn the basics of audio/video, codecs, and containers.
Learn about different inputs, outputs, and stream selection.
Understand factors for choosing a codec.
Encode audio/video using various codecs with FFmpeg.
Learn and apply rate control techniques and additional details for H.264 encoding.
Learn about some very useful and practical applications where FFmpeg can be used.
Perform common video manipulation tasks by constructing filter graphs with FFmpeg.
Separate, mix, and manipulate audio with FFmpeg audio filters.

None.
No prior knowledge of audio/video, transcoding or FFmpeg is needed.
Concepts are explained gradually with easy-to-follow diagrams.
We start with simple examples and build up more complex scenarios in a step-by-step fashion.