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FFMPEG(1) FFMPEG(1) | |
NAME | |
ffmpeg - ffmpeg media converter | |
SYNOPSIS | |
ffmpeg [global_options] {[input_file_options] -i input_url} ... | |
{[output_file_options] output_url} ... | |
DESCRIPTION | |
ffmpeg is a universal media converter. It can read a wide variety of | |
inputs - including live grabbing/recording devices - filter, and | |
transcode them into a plethora of output formats. | |
ffmpeg reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be | |
regular files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), | |
specified by the "-i" option, and writes to an arbitrary number of | |
output "files", which are specified by a plain output url. Anything | |
found on the command line which cannot be interpreted as an option is | |
considered to be an output url. | |
Each input or output url can, in principle, contain any number of | |
streams of different types (video/audio/subtitle/attachment/data). The | |
allowed number and/or types of streams may be limited by the container | |
format. Selecting which streams from which inputs will go into which | |
output is either done automatically or with the "-map" option (see the | |
Stream selection chapter). | |
To refer to input files in options, you must use their indices | |
(0-based). E.g. the first input file is 0, the second is 1, etc. | |
Similarly, streams within a file are referred to by their indices. E.g. | |
"2:3" refers to the fourth stream in the third input file. Also see the | |
Stream specifiers chapter. | |
As a general rule, options are applied to the next specified file. | |
Therefore, order is important, and you can have the same option on the | |
command line multiple times. Each occurrence is then applied to the | |
next input or output file. Exceptions from this rule are the global | |
options (e.g. verbosity level), which should be specified first. | |
Do not mix input and output files -- first specify all input files, | |
then all output files. Also do not mix options which belong to | |
different files. All options apply ONLY to the next input or output | |
file and are reset between files. | |
Some simple examples follow. | |
o Convert an input media file to a different format, by re-encoding | |
media streams: | |
ffmpeg -i input.avi output.mp4 | |
o Set the video bitrate of the output file to 64 kbit/s: | |
ffmpeg -i input.avi -b:v 64k -bufsize 64k output.mp4 | |
o Force the frame rate of the output file to 24 fps: | |
ffmpeg -i input.avi -r 24 output.mp4 | |
o Force the frame rate of the input file (valid for raw formats only) | |
to 1 fps and the frame rate of the output file to 24 fps: | |
ffmpeg -r 1 -i input.m2v -r 24 output.mp4 | |
The format option may be needed for raw input files. | |
DETAILED DESCRIPTION | |
The transcoding process in ffmpeg for each output can be described by | |
the following diagram: | |
_______ ______________ | |
| | | | | |
| input | demuxer | encoded data | decoder | |
| file | ---------> | packets | -----+ | |
|_______| |______________| | | |
v | |
_________ | |
| | | |
| decoded | | |
| frames | | |
|_________| | |
________ ______________ | | |
| | | | | | |
| output | <-------- | encoded data | <----+ | |
| file | muxer | packets | encoder | |
|________| |______________| | |
ffmpeg calls the libavformat library (containing demuxers) to read | |
input files and get packets containing encoded data from them. When | |
there are multiple input files, ffmpeg tries to keep them synchronized | |
by tracking lowest timestamp on any active input stream. | |
Encoded packets are then passed to the decoder (unless streamcopy is | |
selected for the stream, see further for a description). The decoder | |
produces uncompressed frames (raw video/PCM audio/...) which can be | |
processed further by filtering (see next section). After filtering, the | |
frames are passed to the encoder, which encodes them and outputs | |
encoded packets. Finally, those are passed to the muxer, which writes | |
the encoded packets to the output file. | |
Filtering | |
Before encoding, ffmpeg can process raw audio and video frames using | |
filters from the libavfilter library. Several chained filters form a | |
filter graph. ffmpeg distinguishes between two types of filtergraphs: | |
simple and complex. | |
Simple filtergraphs | |
Simple filtergraphs are those that have exactly one input and output, | |
both of the same type. In the above diagram they can be represented by | |
simply inserting an additional step between decoding and encoding: | |
_________ ______________ | |
| | | | | |
| decoded | | encoded data | | |
| frames |\ _ | packets | | |
|_________| \ /||______________| | |
\ __________ / | |
simple _\|| | / encoder | |
filtergraph | filtered |/ | |
| frames | | |
|__________| | |
Simple filtergraphs are configured with the per-stream -filter option | |
(with -vf and -af aliases for video and audio respectively). A simple | |
filtergraph for video can look for example like this: | |
_______ _____________ _______ ________ | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| input | ---> | deinterlace | ---> | scale | ---> | output | | |
|_______| |_____________| |_______| |________| | |
Note that some filters change frame properties but not frame contents. | |
E.g. the "fps" filter in the example above changes number of frames, | |
but does not touch the frame contents. Another example is the "setpts" | |
filter, which only sets timestamps and otherwise passes the frames | |
unchanged. | |
Complex filtergraphs | |
Complex filtergraphs are those which cannot be described as simply a | |
linear processing chain applied to one stream. This is the case, for | |
example, when the graph has more than one input and/or output, or when | |
output stream type is different from input. They can be represented | |
with the following diagram: | |
_________ | |
| | | |
| input 0 |\ __________ | |
|_________| \ | | | |
\ _________ /| output 0 | | |
\ | | / |__________| | |
_________ \| complex | / | |
| | | |/ | |
| input 1 |---->| filter |\ | |
|_________| | | \ __________ | |
/| graph | \ | | | |
/ | | \| output 1 | | |
_________ / |_________| |__________| | |
| | / | |
| input 2 |/ | |
|_________| | |
Complex filtergraphs are configured with the -filter_complex option. | |
Note that this option is global, since a complex filtergraph, by its | |
nature, cannot be unambiguously associated with a single stream or | |
file. | |
The -lavfi option is equivalent to -filter_complex. | |
A trivial example of a complex filtergraph is the "overlay" filter, | |
which has two video inputs and one video output, containing one video | |
overlaid on top of the other. Its audio counterpart is the "amix" | |
filter. | |
Stream copy | |
Stream copy is a mode selected by supplying the "copy" parameter to the | |
-codec option. It makes ffmpeg omit the decoding and encoding step for | |
the specified stream, so it does only demuxing and muxing. It is useful | |
for changing the container format or modifying container-level | |
metadata. The diagram above will, in this case, simplify to this: | |
_______ ______________ ________ | |
| | | | | | | |
| input | demuxer | encoded data | muxer | output | | |
| file | ---------> | packets | -------> | file | | |
|_______| |______________| |________| | |
Since there is no decoding or encoding, it is very fast and there is no | |
quality loss. However, it might not work in some cases because of many | |
factors. Applying filters is obviously also impossible, since filters | |
work on uncompressed data. | |
Loopback decoders | |
While decoders are normally associated with demuxer streams, it is also | |
possible to create "loopback" decoders that decode the output from some | |
encoder and allow it to be fed back to complex filtergraphs. This is | |
done with the "-dec" directive, which takes as a parameter the index of | |
the output stream that should be decoded. Every such directive creates | |
a new loopback decoder, indexed with successive integers starting at | |
zero. These indices should then be used to refer to loopback decoders | |
in complex filtergraph link labels, as described in the documentation | |
for -filter_complex. | |
E.g. the following example: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT \ | |
-map 0:v:0 -c:v libx264 -crf 45 -f null - \ | |
-dec 0:0 -filter_complex '[0:v][dec:0]hstack[stack]' \ | |
-map '[stack]' -c:v ffv1 OUTPUT | |
reads an input video and | |
o (line 2) encodes it with "libx264" at low quality; | |
o (line 3) decodes this encoded stream and places it side by side | |
with the original input video; | |
o (line 4) combined video is then losslessly encoded and written into | |
OUTPUT. | |
STREAM SELECTION | |
ffmpeg provides the "-map" option for manual control of stream | |
selection in each output file. Users can skip "-map" and let ffmpeg | |
perform automatic stream selection as described below. The "-vn / -an / | |
-sn / -dn" options can be used to skip inclusion of video, audio, | |
subtitle and data streams respectively, whether manually mapped or | |
automatically selected, except for those streams which are outputs of | |
complex filtergraphs. | |
Description | |
The sub-sections that follow describe the various rules that are | |
involved in stream selection. The examples that follow next show how | |
these rules are applied in practice. | |
While every effort is made to accurately reflect the behavior of the | |
program, FFmpeg is under continuous development and the code may have | |
changed since the time of this writing. | |
Automatic stream selection | |
In the absence of any map options for a particular output file, ffmpeg | |
inspects the output format to check which type of streams can be | |
included in it, viz. video, audio and/or subtitles. For each acceptable | |
stream type, ffmpeg will pick one stream, when available, from among | |
all the inputs. | |
It will select that stream based upon the following criteria: | |
o for video, it is the stream with the highest resolution, | |
o for audio, it is the stream with the most channels, | |
o for subtitles, it is the first subtitle stream found but there's a | |
caveat. The output format's default subtitle encoder can be either | |
text-based or image-based, and only a subtitle stream of the same | |
type will be chosen. | |
In the case where several streams of the same type rate equally, the | |
stream with the lowest index is chosen. | |
Data or attachment streams are not automatically selected and can only | |
be included using "-map". | |
Manual stream selection | |
When "-map" is used, only user-mapped streams are included in that | |
output file, with one possible exception for filtergraph outputs | |
described below. | |
Complex filtergraphs | |
If there are any complex filtergraph output streams with unlabeled | |
pads, they will be added to the first output file. This will lead to a | |
fatal error if the stream type is not supported by the output format. | |
In the absence of the map option, the inclusion of these streams leads | |
to the automatic stream selection of their types being skipped. If map | |
options are present, these filtergraph streams are included in addition | |
to the mapped streams. | |
Complex filtergraph output streams with labeled pads must be mapped | |
once and exactly once. | |
Stream handling | |
Stream handling is independent of stream selection, with an exception | |
for subtitles described below. Stream handling is set via the "-codec" | |
option addressed to streams within a specific output file. In | |
particular, codec options are applied by ffmpeg after the stream | |
selection process and thus do not influence the latter. If no "-codec" | |
option is specified for a stream type, ffmpeg will select the default | |
encoder registered by the output file muxer. | |
An exception exists for subtitles. If a subtitle encoder is specified | |
for an output file, the first subtitle stream found of any type, text | |
or image, will be included. ffmpeg does not validate if the specified | |
encoder can convert the selected stream or if the converted stream is | |
acceptable within the output format. This applies generally as well: | |
when the user sets an encoder manually, the stream selection process | |
cannot check if the encoded stream can be muxed into the output file. | |
If it cannot, ffmpeg will abort and all output files will fail to be | |
processed. | |
Examples | |
The following examples illustrate the behavior, quirks and limitations | |
of ffmpeg's stream selection methods. | |
They assume the following three input files. | |
input file 'A.avi' | |
stream 0: video 640x360 | |
stream 1: audio 2 channels | |
input file 'B.mp4' | |
stream 0: video 1920x1080 | |
stream 1: audio 2 channels | |
stream 2: subtitles (text) | |
stream 3: audio 5.1 channels | |
stream 4: subtitles (text) | |
input file 'C.mkv' | |
stream 0: video 1280x720 | |
stream 1: audio 2 channels | |
stream 2: subtitles (image) | |
Example: automatic stream selection | |
ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 out1.mkv out2.wav -map 1:a -c:a copy out3.mov | |
There are three output files specified, and for the first two, no | |
"-map" options are set, so ffmpeg will select streams for these two | |
files automatically. | |
out1.mkv is a Matroska container file and accepts video, audio and | |
subtitle streams, so ffmpeg will try to select one of each type.For | |
video, it will select "stream 0" from B.mp4, which has the highest | |
resolution among all the input video streams.For audio, it will select | |
"stream 3" from B.mp4, since it has the greatest number of channels.For | |
subtitles, it will select "stream 2" from B.mp4, which is the first | |
subtitle stream from among A.avi and B.mp4. | |
out2.wav accepts only audio streams, so only "stream 3" from B.mp4 is | |
selected. | |
For out3.mov, since a "-map" option is set, no automatic stream | |
selection will occur. The "-map 1:a" option will select all audio | |
streams from the second input B.mp4. No other streams will be included | |
in this output file. | |
For the first two outputs, all included streams will be transcoded. The | |
encoders chosen will be the default ones registered by each output | |
format, which may not match the codec of the selected input streams. | |
For the third output, codec option for audio streams has been set to | |
"copy", so no decoding-filtering-encoding operations will occur, or can | |
occur. Packets of selected streams shall be conveyed from the input | |
file and muxed within the output file. | |
Example: automatic subtitles selection | |
ffmpeg -i C.mkv out1.mkv -c:s dvdsub -an out2.mkv | |
Although out1.mkv is a Matroska container file which accepts subtitle | |
streams, only a video and audio stream shall be selected. The subtitle | |
stream of C.mkv is image-based and the default subtitle encoder of the | |
Matroska muxer is text-based, so a transcode operation for the | |
subtitles is expected to fail and hence the stream isn't selected. | |
However, in out2.mkv, a subtitle encoder is specified in the command | |
and so, the subtitle stream is selected, in addition to the video | |
stream. The presence of "-an" disables audio stream selection for | |
out2.mkv. | |
Example: unlabeled filtergraph outputs | |
ffmpeg -i A.avi -i C.mkv -i B.mp4 -filter_complex "overlay" out1.mp4 out2.srt | |
A filtergraph is setup here using the "-filter_complex" option and | |
consists of a single video filter. The "overlay" filter requires | |
exactly two video inputs, but none are specified, so the first two | |
available video streams are used, those of A.avi and C.mkv. The output | |
pad of the filter has no label and so is sent to the first output file | |
out1.mp4. Due to this, automatic selection of the video stream is | |
skipped, which would have selected the stream in B.mp4. The audio | |
stream with most channels viz. "stream 3" in B.mp4, is chosen | |
automatically. No subtitle stream is chosen however, since the MP4 | |
format has no default subtitle encoder registered, and the user hasn't | |
specified a subtitle encoder. | |
The 2nd output file, out2.srt, only accepts text-based subtitle | |
streams. So, even though the first subtitle stream available belongs to | |
C.mkv, it is image-based and hence skipped. The selected stream, | |
"stream 2" in B.mp4, is the first text-based subtitle stream. | |
Example: labeled filtergraph outputs | |
ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 -i C.mkv -filter_complex "[1:v]hue=s=0[outv];overlay;aresample" \ | |
-map '[outv]' -an out1.mp4 \ | |
out2.mkv \ | |
-map '[outv]' -map 1:a:0 out3.mkv | |
The above command will fail, as the output pad labelled "[outv]" has | |
been mapped twice. None of the output files shall be processed. | |
ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 -i C.mkv -filter_complex "[1:v]hue=s=0[outv];overlay;aresample" \ | |
-an out1.mp4 \ | |
out2.mkv \ | |
-map 1:a:0 out3.mkv | |
This command above will also fail as the hue filter output has a label, | |
"[outv]", and hasn't been mapped anywhere. | |
The command should be modified as follows, | |
ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 -i C.mkv -filter_complex "[1:v]hue=s=0,split=2[outv1][outv2];overlay;aresample" \ | |
-map '[outv1]' -an out1.mp4 \ | |
out2.mkv \ | |
-map '[outv2]' -map 1:a:0 out3.mkv | |
The video stream from B.mp4 is sent to the hue filter, whose output is | |
cloned once using the split filter, and both outputs labelled. Then a | |
copy each is mapped to the first and third output files. | |
The overlay filter, requiring two video inputs, uses the first two | |
unused video streams. Those are the streams from A.avi and C.mkv. The | |
overlay output isn't labelled, so it is sent to the first output file | |
out1.mp4, regardless of the presence of the "-map" option. | |
The aresample filter is sent the first unused audio stream, that of | |
A.avi. Since this filter output is also unlabelled, it too is mapped to | |
the first output file. The presence of "-an" only suppresses automatic | |
or manual stream selection of audio streams, not outputs sent from | |
filtergraphs. Both these mapped streams shall be ordered before the | |
mapped stream in out1.mp4. | |
The video, audio and subtitle streams mapped to "out2.mkv" are entirely | |
determined by automatic stream selection. | |
out3.mkv consists of the cloned video output from the hue filter and | |
the first audio stream from B.mp4. | |
OPTIONS | |
All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept a string | |
representing a number as input, which may be followed by one of the SI | |
unit prefixes, for example: 'K', 'M', or 'G'. | |
If 'i' is appended to the SI unit prefix, the complete prefix will be | |
interpreted as a unit prefix for binary multiples, which are based on | |
powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. Appending 'B' to the SI unit | |
prefix multiplies the value by 8. This allows using, for example: 'KB', | |
'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as number suffixes. | |
Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the | |
corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing the | |
option name with "no". For example using "-nofoo" will set the boolean | |
option with name "foo" to false. | |
Options that take arguments support a special syntax where the argument | |
given on the command line is interpreted as a path to the file from | |
which the actual argument value is loaded. To use this feature, add a | |
forward slash '/' immediately before the option name (after the leading | |
dash). E.g. | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -/filter:v filter.script OUTPUT | |
will load a filtergraph description from the file named filter.script. | |
Stream specifiers | |
Some options are applied per-stream, e.g. bitrate or codec. Stream | |
specifiers are used to precisely specify which stream(s) a given option | |
belongs to. | |
A stream specifier is a string generally appended to the option name | |
and separated from it by a colon. E.g. "-codec:a:1 ac3" contains the | |
"a:1" stream specifier, which matches the second audio stream. | |
Therefore, it would select the ac3 codec for the second audio stream. | |
A stream specifier can match several streams, so that the option is | |
applied to all of them. E.g. the stream specifier in "-b:a 128k" | |
matches all audio streams. | |
An empty stream specifier matches all streams. For example, "-codec | |
copy" or "-codec: copy" would copy all the streams without reencoding. | |
Possible forms of stream specifiers are: | |
stream_index | |
Matches the stream with this index. E.g. "-threads:1 4" would set | |
the thread count for the second stream to 4. If stream_index is | |
used as an additional stream specifier (see below), then it selects | |
stream number stream_index from the matching streams. Stream | |
numbering is based on the order of the streams as detected by | |
libavformat except when a stream group specifier or program ID is | |
also specified. In this case it is based on the ordering of the | |
streams in the group or program. | |
stream_type[:additional_stream_specifier] | |
stream_type is one of following: 'v' or 'V' for video, 'a' for | |
audio, 's' for subtitle, 'd' for data, and 't' for attachments. 'v' | |
matches all video streams, 'V' only matches video streams which are | |
not attached pictures, video thumbnails or cover arts. If | |
additional_stream_specifier is used, then it matches streams which | |
both have this type and match the additional_stream_specifier. | |
Otherwise, it matches all streams of the specified type. | |
g:group_specifier[:additional_stream_specifier] | |
Matches streams which are in the group with the specifier | |
group_specifier. if additional_stream_specifier is used, then it | |
matches streams which both are part of the group and match the | |
additional_stream_specifier. group_specifier may be one of the | |
following: | |
group_index | |
Match the stream with this group index. | |
#group_id or i:group_id | |
Match the stream with this group id. | |
p:program_id[:additional_stream_specifier] | |
Matches streams which are in the program with the id program_id. If | |
additional_stream_specifier is used, then it matches streams which | |
both are part of the program and match the | |
additional_stream_specifier. | |
#stream_id or i:stream_id | |
Match the stream by stream id (e.g. PID in MPEG-TS container). | |
m:key[:value] | |
Matches streams with the metadata tag key having the specified | |
value. If value is not given, matches streams that contain the | |
given tag with any value. | |
u Matches streams with usable configuration, the codec must be | |
defined and the essential information such as video dimension or | |
audio sample rate must be present. | |
Note that in ffmpeg, matching by metadata will only work properly | |
for input files. | |
Generic options | |
These options are shared amongst the ff* tools. | |
-L Show license. | |
-h, -?, -help, --help [arg] | |
Show help. An optional parameter may be specified to print help | |
about a specific item. If no argument is specified, only basic (non | |
advanced) tool options are shown. | |
Possible values of arg are: | |
long | |
Print advanced tool options in addition to the basic tool | |
options. | |
full | |
Print complete list of options, including shared and private | |
options for encoders, decoders, demuxers, muxers, filters, etc. | |
decoder=decoder_name | |
Print detailed information about the decoder named | |
decoder_name. Use the -decoders option to get a list of all | |
decoders. | |
encoder=encoder_name | |
Print detailed information about the encoder named | |
encoder_name. Use the -encoders option to get a list of all | |
encoders. | |
demuxer=demuxer_name | |
Print detailed information about the demuxer named | |
demuxer_name. Use the -formats option to get a list of all | |
demuxers and muxers. | |
muxer=muxer_name | |
Print detailed information about the muxer named muxer_name. | |
Use the -formats option to get a list of all muxers and | |
demuxers. | |
filter=filter_name | |
Print detailed information about the filter named filter_name. | |
Use the -filters option to get a list of all filters. | |
bsf=bitstream_filter_name | |
Print detailed information about the bitstream filter named | |
bitstream_filter_name. Use the -bsfs option to get a list of | |
all bitstream filters. | |
protocol=protocol_name | |
Print detailed information about the protocol named | |
protocol_name. Use the -protocols option to get a list of all | |
protocols. | |
-version | |
Show version. | |
-buildconf | |
Show the build configuration, one option per line. | |
-formats | |
Show available formats (including devices). | |
-demuxers | |
Show available demuxers. | |
-muxers | |
Show available muxers. | |
-devices | |
Show available devices. | |
-codecs | |
Show all codecs known to libavcodec. | |
Note that the term 'codec' is used throughout this documentation as | |
a shortcut for what is more correctly called a media bitstream | |
format. | |
-decoders | |
Show available decoders. | |
-encoders | |
Show all available encoders. | |
-bsfs | |
Show available bitstream filters. | |
-protocols | |
Show available protocols. | |
-filters | |
Show available libavfilter filters. | |
-pix_fmts | |
Show available pixel formats. | |
-sample_fmts | |
Show available sample formats. | |
-layouts | |
Show channel names and standard channel layouts. | |
-dispositions | |
Show stream dispositions. | |
-colors | |
Show recognized color names. | |
-sources device[,opt1=val1[,opt2=val2]...] | |
Show autodetected sources of the input device. Some devices may | |
provide system-dependent source names that cannot be autodetected. | |
The returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete. | |
ffmpeg -sources pulse,server=192.168.0.4 | |
-sinks device[,opt1=val1[,opt2=val2]...] | |
Show autodetected sinks of the output device. Some devices may | |
provide system-dependent sink names that cannot be autodetected. | |
The returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete. | |
ffmpeg -sinks pulse,server=192.168.0.4 | |
-loglevel [flags+]loglevel | -v [flags+]loglevel | |
Set logging level and flags used by the library. | |
The optional flags prefix can consist of the following values: | |
repeat | |
Indicates that repeated log output should not be compressed to | |
the first line and the "Last message repeated n times" line | |
will be omitted. | |
level | |
Indicates that log output should add a "[level]" prefix to each | |
message line. This can be used as an alternative to log | |
coloring, e.g. when dumping the log to file. | |
Flags can also be used alone by adding a '+'/'-' prefix to | |
set/reset a single flag without affecting other flags or changing | |
loglevel. When setting both flags and loglevel, a '+' separator is | |
expected between the last flags value and before loglevel. | |
loglevel is a string or a number containing one of the following | |
values: | |
quiet, -8 | |
Show nothing at all; be silent. | |
panic, 0 | |
Only show fatal errors which could lead the process to crash, | |
such as an assertion failure. This is not currently used for | |
anything. | |
fatal, 8 | |
Only show fatal errors. These are errors after which the | |
process absolutely cannot continue. | |
error, 16 | |
Show all errors, including ones which can be recovered from. | |
warning, 24 | |
Show all warnings and errors. Any message related to possibly | |
incorrect or unexpected events will be shown. | |
info, 32 | |
Show informative messages during processing. This is in | |
addition to warnings and errors. This is the default value. | |
verbose, 40 | |
Same as "info", except more verbose. | |
debug, 48 | |
Show everything, including debugging information. | |
trace, 56 | |
For example to enable repeated log output, add the "level" prefix, | |
and set loglevel to "verbose": | |
ffmpeg -loglevel repeat+level+verbose -i input output | |
Another example that enables repeated log output without affecting | |
current state of "level" prefix flag or loglevel: | |
ffmpeg [...] -loglevel +repeat | |
By default the program logs to stderr. If coloring is supported by | |
the terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log | |
coloring can be disabled setting the environment variable | |
AV_LOG_FORCE_NOCOLOR, or can be forced setting the environment | |
variable AV_LOG_FORCE_COLOR. | |
-report | |
Dump full command line and log output to a file named | |
"program-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.log" in the current directory. This file | |
can be useful for bug reports. It also implies "-loglevel debug". | |
Setting the environment variable FFREPORT to any value has the same | |
effect. If the value is a ':'-separated key=value sequence, these | |
options will affect the report; option values must be escaped if | |
they contain special characters or the options delimiter ':' (see | |
the ``Quoting and escaping'' section in the ffmpeg-utils manual). | |
The following options are recognized: | |
file | |
set the file name to use for the report; %p is expanded to the | |
name of the program, %t is expanded to a timestamp, "%%" is | |
expanded to a plain "%" | |
level | |
set the log verbosity level using a numerical value (see | |
"-loglevel"). | |
For example, to output a report to a file named ffreport.log using | |
a log level of 32 (alias for log level "info"): | |
FFREPORT=file=ffreport.log:level=32 ffmpeg -i input output | |
Errors in parsing the environment variable are not fatal, and will | |
not appear in the report. | |
-hide_banner | |
Suppress printing banner. | |
All FFmpeg tools will normally show a copyright notice, build | |
options and library versions. This option can be used to suppress | |
printing this information. | |
-cpuflags flags (global) | |
Allows setting and clearing cpu flags. This option is intended for | |
testing. Do not use it unless you know what you're doing. | |
ffmpeg -cpuflags -sse+mmx ... | |
ffmpeg -cpuflags mmx ... | |
ffmpeg -cpuflags 0 ... | |
Possible flags for this option are: | |
x86 | |
mmx | |
mmxext | |
sse | |
sse2 | |
sse2slow | |
sse3 | |
sse3slow | |
ssse3 | |
atom | |
sse4.1 | |
sse4.2 | |
avx | |
avx2 | |
xop | |
fma3 | |
fma4 | |
3dnow | |
3dnowext | |
bmi1 | |
bmi2 | |
cmov | |
ARM | |
armv5te | |
armv6 | |
armv6t2 | |
vfp | |
vfpv3 | |
neon | |
setend | |
AArch64 | |
armv8 | |
vfp | |
neon | |
PowerPC | |
altivec | |
Specific Processors | |
pentium2 | |
pentium3 | |
pentium4 | |
k6 | |
k62 | |
athlon | |
athlonxp | |
k8 | |
-cpucount count (global) | |
Override detection of CPU count. This option is intended for | |
testing. Do not use it unless you know what you're doing. | |
ffmpeg -cpucount 2 | |
-max_alloc bytes | |
Set the maximum size limit for allocating a block on the heap by | |
ffmpeg's family of malloc functions. Exercise extreme caution when | |
using this option. Don't use if you do not understand the full | |
consequence of doing so. Default is INT_MAX. | |
AVOptions | |
These options are provided directly by the libavformat, libavdevice and | |
libavcodec libraries. To see the list of available AVOptions, use the | |
-help option. They are separated into two categories: | |
generic | |
These options can be set for any container, codec or device. | |
Generic options are listed under AVFormatContext options for | |
containers/devices and under AVCodecContext options for codecs. | |
private | |
These options are specific to the given container, device or codec. | |
Private options are listed under their corresponding | |
containers/devices/codecs. | |
For example to write an ID3v2.3 header instead of a default ID3v2.4 to | |
an MP3 file, use the id3v2_version private option of the MP3 muxer: | |
ffmpeg -i input.flac -id3v2_version 3 out.mp3 | |
All codec AVOptions are per-stream, and thus a stream specifier should | |
be attached to them: | |
ffmpeg -i multichannel.mxf -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -map 0:a:0 -c:a:0 ac3 -b:a:0 640k -ac:a:1 2 -c:a:1 aac -b:2 128k out.mp4 | |
In the above example, a multichannel audio stream is mapped twice for | |
output. The first instance is encoded with codec ac3 and bitrate 640k. | |
The second instance is downmixed to 2 channels and encoded with codec | |
aac. A bitrate of 128k is specified for it using absolute index of the | |
output stream. | |
Note: the -nooption syntax cannot be used for boolean AVOptions, use | |
-option 0/-option 1. | |
Note: the old undocumented way of specifying per-stream AVOptions by | |
prepending v/a/s to the options name is now obsolete and will be | |
removed soon. | |
Main options | |
-f fmt (input/output) | |
Force input or output file format. The format is normally auto | |
detected for input files and guessed from the file extension for | |
output files, so this option is not needed in most cases. | |
-i url (input) | |
input file url | |
-y (global) | |
Overwrite output files without asking. | |
-n (global) | |
Do not overwrite output files, and exit immediately if a specified | |
output file already exists. | |
-stream_loop number (input) | |
Set number of times input stream shall be looped. Loop 0 means no | |
loop, loop -1 means infinite loop. | |
-recast_media (global) | |
Allow forcing a decoder of a different media type than the one | |
detected or designated by the demuxer. Useful for decoding media | |
data muxed as data streams. | |
-c[:stream_specifier] codec (input/output,per-stream) | |
-codec[:stream_specifier] codec (input/output,per-stream) | |
Select an encoder (when used before an output file) or a decoder | |
(when used before an input file) for one or more streams. codec is | |
the name of a decoder/encoder or a special value "copy" (output | |
only) to indicate that the stream is not to be re-encoded. | |
For example | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 -c:v libx264 -c:a copy OUTPUT | |
encodes all video streams with libx264 and copies all audio | |
streams. | |
For each stream, the last matching "c" option is applied, so | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 -c copy -c:v:1 libx264 -c:a:137 libvorbis OUTPUT | |
will copy all the streams except the second video, which will be | |
encoded with libx264, and the 138th audio, which will be encoded | |
with libvorbis. | |
-t duration (input/output) | |
When used as an input option (before "-i"), limit the duration of | |
data read from the input file. | |
When used as an output option (before an output url), stop writing | |
the output after its duration reaches duration. | |
duration must be a time duration specification, see the Time | |
duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
-to and -t are mutually exclusive and -t has priority. | |
-to position (input/output) | |
Stop writing the output or reading the input at position. position | |
must be a time duration specification, see the Time duration | |
section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
-to and -t are mutually exclusive and -t has priority. | |
-fs limit_size (output) | |
Set the file size limit, expressed in bytes. No further chunk of | |
bytes is written after the limit is exceeded. The size of the | |
output file is slightly more than the requested file size. | |
-ss position (input/output) | |
When used as an input option (before "-i"), seeks in this input | |
file to position. Note that in most formats it is not possible to | |
seek exactly, so ffmpeg will seek to the closest seek point before | |
position. When transcoding and -accurate_seek is enabled (the | |
default), this extra segment between the seek point and position | |
will be decoded and discarded. When doing stream copy or when | |
-noaccurate_seek is used, it will be preserved. | |
When used as an output option (before an output url), decodes but | |
discards input until the timestamps reach position. | |
position must be a time duration specification, see the Time | |
duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
-sseof position (input) | |
Like the "-ss" option but relative to the "end of file". That is | |
negative values are earlier in the file, 0 is at EOF. | |
-isync input_index (input) | |
Assign an input as a sync source. | |
This will take the difference between the start times of the target | |
and reference inputs and offset the timestamps of the target file | |
by that difference. The source timestamps of the two inputs should | |
derive from the same clock source for expected results. If "copyts" | |
is set then "start_at_zero" must also be set. If either of the | |
inputs has no starting timestamp then no sync adjustment is made. | |
Acceptable values are those that refer to a valid ffmpeg input | |
index. If the sync reference is the target index itself or -1, then | |
no adjustment is made to target timestamps. A sync reference may | |
not itself be synced to any other input. | |
Default value is -1. | |
-itsoffset offset (input) | |
Set the input time offset. | |
offset must be a time duration specification, see the Time duration | |
section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
The offset is added to the timestamps of the input files. | |
Specifying a positive offset means that the corresponding streams | |
are delayed by the time duration specified in offset. | |
-itsscale scale (input,per-stream) | |
Rescale input timestamps. scale should be a floating point number. | |
-timestamp date (output) | |
Set the recording timestamp in the container. | |
date must be a date specification, see the Date section in the | |
ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
-metadata[:metadata_specifier] key=value (output,per-metadata) | |
Set a metadata key/value pair. | |
An optional metadata_specifier may be given to set metadata on | |
streams, chapters or programs. See "-map_metadata" documentation | |
for details. | |
This option overrides metadata set with "-map_metadata". It is also | |
possible to delete metadata by using an empty value. | |
For example, for setting the title in the output file: | |
ffmpeg -i in.avi -metadata title="my title" out.flv | |
To set the language of the first audio stream: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng OUTPUT | |
-disposition[:stream_specifier] value (output,per-stream) | |
Sets the disposition for a stream. | |
By default, the disposition is copied from the input stream, unless | |
the output stream this option applies to is fed by a complex | |
filtergraph - in that case the disposition is unset by default. | |
value is a sequence of items separated by '+' or '-'. The first | |
item may also be prefixed with '+' or '-', in which case this | |
option modifies the default value. Otherwise (the first item is not | |
prefixed) this options overrides the default value. A '+' prefix | |
adds the given disposition, '-' removes it. It is also possible to | |
clear the disposition by setting it to 0. | |
If no "-disposition" options were specified for an output file, | |
ffmpeg will automatically set the 'default' disposition on the | |
first stream of each type, when there are multiple streams of this | |
type in the output file and no stream of that type is already | |
marked as default. | |
The "-dispositions" option lists the known dispositions. | |
For example, to make the second audio stream the default stream: | |
ffmpeg -i in.mkv -c copy -disposition:a:1 default out.mkv | |
To make the second subtitle stream the default stream and remove | |
the default disposition from the first subtitle stream: | |
ffmpeg -i in.mkv -c copy -disposition:s:0 0 -disposition:s:1 default out.mkv | |
To add an embedded cover/thumbnail: | |
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -i IMAGE -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -c:v:1 png -disposition:v:1 attached_pic out.mp4 | |
Not all muxers support embedded thumbnails, and those who do, only | |
support a few formats, like JPEG or PNG. | |
-program | |
[title=title:][program_num=program_num:]st=stream[:st=stream...] | |
(output) | |
Creates a program with the specified title, program_num and adds | |
the specified stream(s) to it. | |
-stream_group | |
type=type:st=stream[:st=stream][:stg=stream_group][:id=stream_group_id...] | |
(output) | |
Creates a stream group of the specified type, stream_group_id and | |
adds the specified stream(s) and/or previously defined | |
stream_group(s) to it. | |
type can be one of the following: | |
iamf_audio_element | |
Groups streams that belong to the same IAMF Audio Element | |
For this group type, the following options are available | |
audio_element_type | |
The Audio Element type. The following values are supported: | |
channel | |
Scalable channel audio representation | |
scene | |
Ambisonics representation | |
demixing | |
Demixing information used to reconstruct a scalable channel | |
audio representation. This option must be separated from | |
the rest with a ',', and takes the following key=value | |
options | |
parameter_id | |
An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer to | |
dmixp_mode | |
A pre-defined combination of demixing parameters | |
recon_gain | |
Recon gain information used to reconstruct a scalable | |
channel audio representation. This option must be | |
separated from the rest with a ',', and takes the following | |
key=value options | |
parameter_id | |
An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer to | |
layer | |
A layer defining a Channel Layout in the Audio Element. | |
This option must be separated from the rest with a ','. | |
Several ',' separated entries can be defined, and at least | |
one must be set. | |
It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options | |
ch_layout | |
The layer's channel layout | |
flags | |
The following flags are available: | |
recon_gain | |
Wether to signal if recon_gain is present as | |
metadata in parameter blocks within frames | |
output_gain | |
output_gain_flags | |
Which channels output_gain applies to. The following | |
flags are available: | |
FL | |
FR | |
BL | |
BR | |
TFL | |
TFR | |
ambisonics_mode | |
The ambisonics mode. This has no effect if | |
audio_element_type is set to channel. | |
The following values are supported: | |
mono | |
Each ambisonics channel is coded as an individual | |
mono stream in the group | |
default_w | |
Default weight value | |
iamf_mix_presentation | |
Groups streams that belong to all IAMF Audio Element the same | |
IAMF Mix Presentation references | |
For this group type, the following options are available | |
submix | |
A sub-mix within the Mix Presentation. This option must be | |
separated from the rest with a ','. Several ',' separated | |
entries can be defined, and at least one must be set. | |
It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options | |
parameter_id | |
An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer to, | |
for post-processing the mixed audio signal to generate | |
the audio signal for playback | |
parameter_rate | |
The sample rate duration fields in parameters blocks in | |
frames that refer to this parameter_id are expressed as | |
default_mix_gain | |
Default mix gain value to apply when there are no | |
parameter blocks sharing the same parameter_id for a | |
given frame | |
element | |
References an Audio Element used in this Mix | |
Presentation to generate the final output audio signal | |
for playback. This option must be separated from the | |
rest with a '|'. Several '|' separated entries can be | |
defined, and at least one must be set. | |
It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options: | |
stg The stream_group_id for an Audio Element which this | |
sub-mix refers to | |
parameter_id | |
An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer | |
to, for applying any processing to the referenced | |
and rendered Audio Element before being summed with | |
other processed Audio Elements | |
parameter_rate | |
The sample rate duration fields in parameters | |
blocks in frames that refer to this parameter_id | |
are expressed as | |
default_mix_gain | |
Default mix gain value to apply when there are no | |
parameter blocks sharing the same parameter_id for | |
a given frame | |
annotations | |
A key=value string describing the sub-mix element | |
where "key" is a string conforming to BCP-47 that | |
specifies the language for the "value" string. | |
"key" must be the same as the one in the mix's | |
annotations | |
headphones_rendering_mode | |
Indicates whether the input channel-based Audio | |
Element is rendered to stereo loudspeakers or | |
spatialized with a binaural renderer when played | |
back on headphones. This has no effect if the | |
referenced Audio Element's audio_element_type is | |
set to channel. | |
The following values are supported: | |
stereo | |
binaural | |
layout | |
Specifies the layouts for this sub-mix on which the | |
loudness information was measured. This option must be | |
separated from the rest with a '|'. Several '|' | |
separated entries can be defined, and at least one must | |
be set. | |
It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options: | |
layout_type | |
loudspeakers | |
The layout follows the loudspeaker sound system | |
convention of ITU-2051-3. | |
binaural | |
The layout is binaural. | |
sound_system | |
Channel layout matching one of Sound Systems A to J | |
of ITU-2051-3, plus 7.1.2 and 3.1.2 This has no | |
effect if layout_type is set to binaural. | |
integrated_loudness | |
The program integrated loudness information, as | |
defined in ITU-1770-4. | |
digital_peak | |
The digital (sampled) peak value of the audio | |
signal, as defined in ITU-1770-4. | |
true_peak | |
The true peak of the audio signal, as defined in | |
ITU-1770-4. | |
dialog_anchored_loudness | |
The Dialogue loudness information, as defined in | |
ITU-1770-4. | |
album_anchored_loudness | |
The Album loudness information, as defined in | |
ITU-1770-4. | |
annotations | |
A key=value string string describing the mix where "key" is | |
a string conforming to BCP-47 that specifies the language | |
for the "value" string. "key" must be the same as the ones | |
in all sub-mix element's annotationss | |
-target type (output) | |
Specify target file type ("vcd", "svcd", "dvd", "dv", "dv50"). type | |
may be prefixed with "pal-", "ntsc-" or "film-" to use the | |
corresponding standard. All the format options (bitrate, codecs, | |
buffer sizes) are then set automatically. You can just type: | |
ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd /tmp/vcd.mpg | |
Nevertheless you can specify additional options as long as you know | |
they do not conflict with the standard, as in: | |
ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd -bf 2 /tmp/vcd.mpg | |
The parameters set for each target are as follows. | |
VCD | |
<pal>: | |
-f vcd -muxrate 1411200 -muxpreload 0.44 -packetsize 2324 | |
-s 352x288 -r 25 | |
-codec:v mpeg1video -g 15 -b:v 1150k -maxrate:v 1150k -minrate:v 1150k -bufsize:v 327680 | |
-ar 44100 -ac 2 | |
-codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
<ntsc>: | |
-f vcd -muxrate 1411200 -muxpreload 0.44 -packetsize 2324 | |
-s 352x240 -r 30000/1001 | |
-codec:v mpeg1video -g 18 -b:v 1150k -maxrate:v 1150k -minrate:v 1150k -bufsize:v 327680 | |
-ar 44100 -ac 2 | |
-codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
<film>: | |
-f vcd -muxrate 1411200 -muxpreload 0.44 -packetsize 2324 | |
-s 352x240 -r 24000/1001 | |
-codec:v mpeg1video -g 18 -b:v 1150k -maxrate:v 1150k -minrate:v 1150k -bufsize:v 327680 | |
-ar 44100 -ac 2 | |
-codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
SVCD | |
<pal>: | |
-f svcd -packetsize 2324 | |
-s 480x576 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 | |
-codec:v mpeg2video -g 15 -b:v 2040k -maxrate:v 2516k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 -scan_offset 1 | |
-ar 44100 | |
-codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
<ntsc>: | |
-f svcd -packetsize 2324 | |
-s 480x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 30000/1001 | |
-codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 2040k -maxrate:v 2516k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 -scan_offset 1 | |
-ar 44100 | |
-codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
<film>: | |
-f svcd -packetsize 2324 | |
-s 480x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 24000/1001 | |
-codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 2040k -maxrate:v 2516k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 -scan_offset 1 | |
-ar 44100 | |
-codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
DVD | |
<pal>: | |
-f dvd -muxrate 10080k -packetsize 2048 | |
-s 720x576 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 | |
-codec:v mpeg2video -g 15 -b:v 6000k -maxrate:v 9000k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 | |
-ar 48000 | |
-codec:a ac3 -b:a 448k | |
<ntsc>: | |
-f dvd -muxrate 10080k -packetsize 2048 | |
-s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 30000/1001 | |
-codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 6000k -maxrate:v 9000k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 | |
-ar 48000 | |
-codec:a ac3 -b:a 448k | |
<film>: | |
-f dvd -muxrate 10080k -packetsize 2048 | |
-s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 24000/1001 | |
-codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 6000k -maxrate:v 9000k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 | |
-ar 48000 | |
-codec:a ac3 -b:a 448k | |
DV | |
<pal>: | |
-f dv | |
-s 720x576 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 | |
-ar 48000 -ac 2 | |
<ntsc>: | |
-f dv | |
-s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv411p -r 30000/1001 | |
-ar 48000 -ac 2 | |
<film>: | |
-f dv | |
-s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv411p -r 24000/1001 | |
-ar 48000 -ac 2 | |
The "dv50" target is identical to the "dv" target except that the | |
pixel format set is "yuv422p" for all three standards. | |
Any user-set value for a parameter above will override the target | |
preset value. In that case, the output may not comply with the | |
target standard. | |
-dn (input/output) | |
As an input option, blocks all data streams of a file from being | |
filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any output. | |
See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
As an output option, disables data recording i.e. automatic | |
selection or mapping of any data stream. For full manual control | |
see the "-map" option. | |
-dframes number (output) | |
Set the number of data frames to output. This is an obsolete alias | |
for "-frames:d", which you should use instead. | |
-frames[:stream_specifier] framecount (output,per-stream) | |
Stop writing to the stream after framecount frames. | |
-q[:stream_specifier] q (output,per-stream) | |
-qscale[:stream_specifier] q (output,per-stream) | |
Use fixed quality scale (VBR). The meaning of q/qscale is codec- | |
dependent. If qscale is used without a stream_specifier then it | |
applies only to the video stream, this is to maintain compatibility | |
with previous behavior and as specifying the same codec specific | |
value to 2 different codecs that is audio and video generally is | |
not what is intended when no stream_specifier is used. | |
-filter[:stream_specifier] filtergraph (output,per-stream) | |
Create the filtergraph specified by filtergraph and use it to | |
filter the stream. | |
filtergraph is a description of the filtergraph to apply to the | |
stream, and must have a single input and a single output of the | |
same type of the stream. In the filtergraph, the input is | |
associated to the label "in", and the output to the label "out". | |
See the ffmpeg-filters manual for more information about the | |
filtergraph syntax. | |
See the -filter_complex option if you want to create filtergraphs | |
with multiple inputs and/or outputs. | |
-reinit_filter[:stream_specifier] integer (input,per-stream) | |
This boolean option determines if the filtergraph(s) to which this | |
stream is fed gets reinitialized when input frame parameters change | |
mid-stream. This option is enabled by default as most video and all | |
audio filters cannot handle deviation in input frame properties. | |
Upon reinitialization, existing filter state is lost, like e.g. the | |
frame count "n" reference available in some filters. Any frames | |
buffered at time of reinitialization are lost. The properties | |
where a change triggers reinitialization are, for video, frame | |
resolution or pixel format; for audio, sample format, sample rate, | |
channel count or channel layout. | |
-filter_threads nb_threads (global) | |
Defines how many threads are used to process a filter pipeline. | |
Each pipeline will produce a thread pool with this many threads | |
available for parallel processing. The default is the number of | |
available CPUs. | |
-pre[:stream_specifier] preset_name (output,per-stream) | |
Specify the preset for matching stream(s). | |
-stats (global) | |
Print encoding progress/statistics. It is on by default, to | |
explicitly disable it you need to specify "-nostats". | |
-stats_period time (global) | |
Set period at which encoding progress/statistics are updated. | |
Default is 0.5 seconds. | |
-progress url (global) | |
Send program-friendly progress information to url. | |
Progress information is written periodically and at the end of the | |
encoding process. It is made of "key=value" lines. key consists of | |
only alphanumeric characters. The last key of a sequence of | |
progress information is always "progress". | |
The update period is set using "-stats_period". | |
-stdin | |
Enable interaction on standard input. On by default unless standard | |
input is used as an input. To explicitly disable interaction you | |
need to specify "-nostdin". | |
Disabling interaction on standard input is useful, for example, if | |
ffmpeg is in the background process group. Roughly the same result | |
can be achieved with "ffmpeg ... < /dev/null" but it requires a | |
shell. | |
-debug_ts (global) | |
Print timestamp/latency information. It is off by default. This | |
option is mostly useful for testing and debugging purposes, and the | |
output format may change from one version to another, so it should | |
not be employed by portable scripts. | |
See also the option "-fdebug ts". | |
-attach filename (output) | |
Add an attachment to the output file. This is supported by a few | |
formats like Matroska for e.g. fonts used in rendering subtitles. | |
Attachments are implemented as a specific type of stream, so this | |
option will add a new stream to the file. It is then possible to | |
use per-stream options on this stream in the usual way. Attachment | |
streams created with this option will be created after all the | |
other streams (i.e. those created with "-map" or automatic | |
mappings). | |
Note that for Matroska you also have to set the mimetype metadata | |
tag: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -attach DejaVuSans.ttf -metadata:s:2 mimetype=application/x-truetype-font out.mkv | |
(assuming that the attachment stream will be third in the output | |
file). | |
-dump_attachment[:stream_specifier] filename (input,per-stream) | |
Extract the matching attachment stream into a file named filename. | |
If filename is empty, then the value of the "filename" metadata tag | |
will be used. | |
E.g. to extract the first attachment to a file named 'out.ttf': | |
ffmpeg -dump_attachment:t:0 out.ttf -i INPUT | |
To extract all attachments to files determined by the "filename" | |
tag: | |
ffmpeg -dump_attachment:t "" -i INPUT | |
Technical note -- attachments are implemented as codec extradata, | |
so this option can actually be used to extract extradata from any | |
stream, not just attachments. | |
Video Options | |
-vframes number (output) | |
Set the number of video frames to output. This is an obsolete alias | |
for "-frames:v", which you should use instead. | |
-r[:stream_specifier] fps (input/output,per-stream) | |
Set frame rate (Hz value, fraction or abbreviation). | |
As an input option, ignore any timestamps stored in the file and | |
instead generate timestamps assuming constant frame rate fps. This | |
is not the same as the -framerate option used for some input | |
formats like image2 or v4l2 (it used to be the same in older | |
versions of FFmpeg). If in doubt use -framerate instead of the | |
input option -r. | |
As an output option: | |
video encoding | |
Duplicate or drop frames right before encoding them to achieve | |
constant output frame rate fps. | |
video streamcopy | |
Indicate to the muxer that fps is the stream frame rate. No | |
data is dropped or duplicated in this case. This may produce | |
invalid files if fps does not match the actual stream frame | |
rate as determined by packet timestamps. See also the "setts" | |
bitstream filter. | |
-fpsmax[:stream_specifier] fps (output,per-stream) | |
Set maximum frame rate (Hz value, fraction or abbreviation). | |
Clamps output frame rate when output framerate is auto-set and is | |
higher than this value. Useful in batch processing or when input | |
framerate is wrongly detected as very high. It cannot be set | |
together with "-r". It is ignored during streamcopy. | |
-s[:stream_specifier] size (input/output,per-stream) | |
Set frame size. | |
As an input option, this is a shortcut for the video_size private | |
option, recognized by some demuxers for which the frame size is | |
either not stored in the file or is configurable -- e.g. raw video | |
or video grabbers. | |
As an output option, this inserts the "scale" video filter to the | |
end of the corresponding filtergraph. Please use the "scale" filter | |
directly to insert it at the beginning or some other place. | |
The format is wxh (default - same as source). | |
-aspect[:stream_specifier] aspect (output,per-stream) | |
Set the video display aspect ratio specified by aspect. | |
aspect can be a floating point number string, or a string of the | |
form num:den, where num and den are the numerator and denominator | |
of the aspect ratio. For example "4:3", "16:9", "1.3333", and | |
"1.7777" are valid argument values. | |
If used together with -vcodec copy, it will affect the aspect ratio | |
stored at container level, but not the aspect ratio stored in | |
encoded frames, if it exists. | |
-display_rotation[:stream_specifier] rotation (input,per-stream) | |
Set video rotation metadata. | |
rotation is a decimal number specifying the amount in degree by | |
which the video should be rotated counter-clockwise before being | |
displayed. | |
This option overrides the rotation/display transform metadata | |
stored in the file, if any. When the video is being transcoded | |
(rather than copied) and "-autorotate" is enabled, the video will | |
be rotated at the filtering stage. Otherwise, the metadata will be | |
written into the output file if the muxer supports it. | |
If the "-display_hflip" and/or "-display_vflip" options are given, | |
they are applied after the rotation specified by this option. | |
-display_hflip[:stream_specifier] (input,per-stream) | |
Set whether on display the image should be horizontally flipped. | |
See the "-display_rotation" option for more details. | |
-display_vflip[:stream_specifier] (input,per-stream) | |
Set whether on display the image should be vertically flipped. | |
See the "-display_rotation" option for more details. | |
-vn (input/output) | |
As an input option, blocks all video streams of a file from being | |
filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any output. | |
See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
As an output option, disables video recording i.e. automatic | |
selection or mapping of any video stream. For full manual control | |
see the "-map" option. | |
-vcodec codec (output) | |
Set the video codec. This is an alias for "-codec:v". | |
-pass[:stream_specifier] n (output,per-stream) | |
Select the pass number (1 or 2). It is used to do two-pass video | |
encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first | |
pass into a log file (see also the option -passlogfile), and in the | |
second pass that log file is used to generate the video at the | |
exact requested bitrate. On pass 1, you may just deactivate audio | |
and set output to null, examples for Windows and Unix: | |
ffmpeg -i foo.mov -c:v libxvid -pass 1 -an -f rawvideo -y NUL | |
ffmpeg -i foo.mov -c:v libxvid -pass 1 -an -f rawvideo -y /dev/null | |
-passlogfile[:stream_specifier] prefix (output,per-stream) | |
Set two-pass log file name prefix to prefix, the default file name | |
prefix is ``ffmpeg2pass''. The complete file name will be | |
PREFIX-N.log, where N is a number specific to the output stream | |
-vf filtergraph (output) | |
Create the filtergraph specified by filtergraph and use it to | |
filter the stream. | |
This is an alias for "-filter:v", see the -filter option. | |
-autorotate | |
Automatically rotate the video according to file metadata. Enabled | |
by default, use -noautorotate to disable it. | |
-autoscale | |
Automatically scale the video according to the resolution of first | |
frame. Enabled by default, use -noautoscale to disable it. When | |
autoscale is disabled, all output frames of filter graph might not | |
be in the same resolution and may be inadequate for some | |
encoder/muxer. Therefore, it is not recommended to disable it | |
unless you really know what you are doing. Disable autoscale at | |
your own risk. | |
Advanced Video options | |
-pix_fmt[:stream_specifier] format (input/output,per-stream) | |
Set pixel format. Use "-pix_fmts" to show all the supported pixel | |
formats. If the selected pixel format can not be selected, ffmpeg | |
will print a warning and select the best pixel format supported by | |
the encoder. If pix_fmt is prefixed by a "+", ffmpeg will exit | |
with an error if the requested pixel format can not be selected, | |
and automatic conversions inside filtergraphs are disabled. If | |
pix_fmt is a single "+", ffmpeg selects the same pixel format as | |
the input (or graph output) and automatic conversions are disabled. | |
-sws_flags flags (input/output) | |
Set default flags for the libswscale library. These flags are used | |
by automatically inserted "scale" filters and those within simple | |
filtergraphs, if not overridden within the filtergraph definition. | |
See the ffmpeg-scaler manual for a list of scaler options. | |
-rc_override[:stream_specifier] override (output,per-stream) | |
Rate control override for specific intervals, formatted as | |
"int,int,int" list separated with slashes. Two first values are the | |
beginning and end frame numbers, last one is quantizer to use if | |
positive, or quality factor if negative. | |
-vstats | |
Dump video coding statistics to vstats_HHMMSS.log. See the vstats | |
file format section for the format description. | |
-vstats_file file | |
Dump video coding statistics to file. See the vstats file format | |
section for the format description. | |
-vstats_version file | |
Specify which version of the vstats format to use. Default is 2. | |
See the vstats file format section for the format description. | |
-vtag fourcc/tag (output) | |
Force video tag/fourcc. This is an alias for "-tag:v". | |
-force_key_frames[:stream_specifier] time[,time...] (output,per-stream) | |
-force_key_frames[:stream_specifier] expr:expr (output,per-stream) | |
-force_key_frames[:stream_specifier] source (output,per-stream) | |
force_key_frames can take arguments of the following form: | |
time[,time...] | |
If the argument consists of timestamps, ffmpeg will round the | |
specified times to the nearest output timestamp as per the | |
encoder time base and force a keyframe at the first frame | |
having timestamp equal or greater than the computed timestamp. | |
Note that if the encoder time base is too coarse, then the | |
keyframes may be forced on frames with timestamps lower than | |
the specified time. The default encoder time base is the | |
inverse of the output framerate but may be set otherwise via | |
"-enc_time_base". | |
If one of the times is ""chapters"[delta]", it is expanded into | |
the time of the beginning of all chapters in the file, shifted | |
by delta, expressed as a time in seconds. This option can be | |
useful to ensure that a seek point is present at a chapter mark | |
or any other designated place in the output file. | |
For example, to insert a key frame at 5 minutes, plus key | |
frames 0.1 second before the beginning of every chapter: | |
-force_key_frames 0:05:00,chapters-0.1 | |
expr:expr | |
If the argument is prefixed with "expr:", the string expr is | |
interpreted like an expression and is evaluated for each frame. | |
A key frame is forced in case the evaluation is non-zero. | |
The expression in expr can contain the following constants: | |
n the number of current processed frame, starting from 0 | |
n_forced | |
the number of forced frames | |
prev_forced_n | |
the number of the previous forced frame, it is "NAN" when | |
no keyframe was forced yet | |
prev_forced_t | |
the time of the previous forced frame, it is "NAN" when no | |
keyframe was forced yet | |
t the time of the current processed frame | |
For example to force a key frame every 5 seconds, you can | |
specify: | |
-force_key_frames expr:gte(t,n_forced*5) | |
To force a key frame 5 seconds after the time of the last | |
forced one, starting from second 13: | |
-force_key_frames expr:if(isnan(prev_forced_t),gte(t,13),gte(t,prev_forced_t+5)) | |
source | |
If the argument is "source", ffmpeg will force a key frame if | |
the current frame being encoded is marked as a key frame in its | |
source. In cases where this particular source frame has to be | |
dropped, enforce the next available frame to become a key frame | |
instead. | |
Note that forcing too many keyframes is very harmful for the | |
lookahead algorithms of certain encoders: using fixed-GOP options | |
or similar would be more efficient. | |
-copyinkf[:stream_specifier] (output,per-stream) | |
When doing stream copy, copy also non-key frames found at the | |
beginning. | |
-init_hw_device type[=name][:device[,key=value...]] | |
Initialise a new hardware device of type type called name, using | |
the given device parameters. If no name is specified it will | |
receive a default name of the form "type%d". | |
The meaning of device and the following arguments depends on the | |
device type: | |
cuda | |
device is the number of the CUDA device. | |
The following options are recognized: | |
primary_ctx | |
If set to 1, uses the primary device context instead of | |
creating a new one. | |
Examples: | |
-init_hw_device cuda:1 | |
Choose the second device on the system. | |
-init_hw_device cuda:0,primary_ctx=1 | |
Choose the first device and use the primary device context. | |
dxva2 | |
device is the number of the Direct3D 9 display adapter. | |
d3d11va | |
device is the number of the Direct3D 11 display adapter. If | |
not specified, it will attempt to use the default Direct3D 11 | |
display adapter or the first Direct3D 11 display adapter whose | |
hardware VendorId is specified by vendor_id. | |
Examples: | |
-init_hw_device d3d11va | |
Create a d3d11va device on the default Direct3D 11 display | |
adapter. | |
-init_hw_device d3d11va:1 | |
Create a d3d11va device on the Direct3D 11 display adapter | |
specified by index 1. | |
-init_hw_device d3d11va:,vendor_id=0x8086 | |
Create a d3d11va device on the first Direct3D 11 display | |
adapter whose hardware VendorId is 0x8086. | |
vaapi | |
device is either an X11 display name, a DRM render node or a | |
DirectX adapter index. If not specified, it will attempt to | |
open the default X11 display ($DISPLAY) and then the first DRM | |
render node (/dev/dri/renderD128), or the default DirectX | |
adapter on Windows. | |
The following options are recognized: | |
kernel_driver | |
When device is not specified, use this option to specify | |
the name of the kernel driver associated with the desired | |
device. This option is available only when the hardware | |
acceleration method drm and vaapi are enabled. | |
Examples: | |
-init_hw_device vaapi | |
Create a vaapi device on the default device. | |
-init_hw_device vaapi:/dev/dri/renderD129 | |
Create a vaapi device on DRM render node | |
/dev/dri/renderD129. | |
-init_hw_device vaapi:1 | |
Create a vaapi device on DirectX adapter 1. | |
-init_hw_device vaapi:,kernel_driver=i915 | |
Create a vaapi device on a device associated with kernel | |
driver i915. | |
vdpau | |
device is an X11 display name. If not specified, it will | |
attempt to open the default X11 display ($DISPLAY). | |
qsv device selects a value in MFX_IMPL_*. Allowed values are: | |
auto | |
sw | |
hw | |
auto_any | |
hw_any | |
hw2 | |
hw3 | |
hw4 | |
If not specified, auto_any is used. (Note that it may be | |
easier to achieve the desired result for QSV by creating the | |
platform-appropriate subdevice (dxva2 or d3d11va or vaapi) and | |
then deriving a QSV device from that.) | |
The following options are recognized: | |
child_device | |
Specify a DRM render node on Linux or DirectX adapter on | |
Windows. | |
child_device_type | |
Choose platform-appropriate subdevice type. On Windows | |
d3d11va is used as default subdevice type when | |
"--enable-libvpl" is specified at configuration time, dxva2 | |
is used as default subdevice type when "--enable-libmfx" is | |
specified at configuration time. On Linux user can use | |
vaapi only as subdevice type. | |
Examples: | |
-init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device=/dev/dri/renderD129 | |
Create a QSV device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE on DRM render | |
node /dev/dri/renderD129. | |
-init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device=1 | |
Create a QSV device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE on DirectX | |
adapter 1. | |
-init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device_type=d3d11va | |
Choose the GPU subdevice with type d3d11va and create QSV | |
device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE. | |
-init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device_type=dxva2 | |
Choose the GPU subdevice with type dxva2 and create QSV | |
device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE. | |
-init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device=1,child_device_type=d3d11va | |
Create a QSV device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE on DirectX | |
adapter 1 with subdevice type d3d11va. | |
-init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD129 -init_hw_device | |
qsv=hw1@va | |
Create a VAAPI device called va on /dev/dri/renderD129, | |
then derive a QSV device called hw1 from device va. | |
opencl | |
device selects the platform and device as | |
platform_index.device_index. | |
The set of devices can also be filtered using the key-value | |
pairs to find only devices matching particular platform or | |
device strings. | |
The strings usable as filters are: | |
platform_profile | |
platform_version | |
platform_name | |
platform_vendor | |
platform_extensions | |
device_name | |
device_vendor | |
driver_version | |
device_version | |
device_profile | |
device_extensions | |
device_type | |
The indices and filters must together uniquely select a device. | |
Examples: | |
-init_hw_device opencl:0.1 | |
Choose the second device on the first platform. | |
-init_hw_device opencl:,device_name=Foo9000 | |
Choose the device with a name containing the string | |
Foo9000. | |
-init_hw_device | |
opencl:1,device_type=gpu,device_extensions=cl_khr_fp16 | |
Choose the GPU device on the second platform supporting the | |
cl_khr_fp16 extension. | |
vulkan | |
If device is an integer, it selects the device by its index in | |
a system-dependent list of devices. If device is any other | |
string, it selects the first device with a name containing that | |
string as a substring. | |
The following options are recognized: | |
debug | |
If set to 1, enables the validation layer, if installed. | |
linear_images | |
If set to 1, images allocated by the hwcontext will be | |
linear and locally mappable. | |
instance_extensions | |
A plus separated list of additional instance extensions to | |
enable. | |
device_extensions | |
A plus separated list of additional device extensions to | |
enable. | |
Examples: | |
-init_hw_device vulkan:1 | |
Choose the second device on the system. | |
-init_hw_device vulkan:RADV | |
Choose the first device with a name containing the string | |
RADV. | |
-init_hw_device | |
vulkan:0,instance_extensions=VK_KHR_wayland_surface+VK_KHR_xcb_surface | |
Choose the first device and enable the Wayland and XCB | |
instance extensions. | |
-init_hw_device type[=name]@source | |
Initialise a new hardware device of type type called name, deriving | |
it from the existing device with the name source. | |
-init_hw_device list | |
List all hardware device types supported in this build of ffmpeg. | |
-filter_hw_device name | |
Pass the hardware device called name to all filters in any filter | |
graph. This can be used to set the device to upload to with the | |
"hwupload" filter, or the device to map to with the "hwmap" filter. | |
Other filters may also make use of this parameter when they require | |
a hardware device. Note that this is typically only required when | |
the input is not already in hardware frames - when it is, filters | |
will derive the device they require from the context of the frames | |
they receive as input. | |
This is a global setting, so all filters will receive the same | |
device. | |
-hwaccel[:stream_specifier] hwaccel (input,per-stream) | |
Use hardware acceleration to decode the matching stream(s). The | |
allowed values of hwaccel are: | |
none | |
Do not use any hardware acceleration (the default). | |
auto | |
Automatically select the hardware acceleration method. | |
vdpau | |
Use VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) hardware | |
acceleration. | |
dxva2 | |
Use DXVA2 (DirectX Video Acceleration) hardware acceleration. | |
d3d11va | |
Use D3D11VA (DirectX Video Acceleration) hardware acceleration. | |
vaapi | |
Use VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) hardware acceleration. | |
qsv Use the Intel QuickSync Video acceleration for video | |
transcoding. | |
Unlike most other values, this option does not enable | |
accelerated decoding (that is used automatically whenever a qsv | |
decoder is selected), but accelerated transcoding, without | |
copying the frames into the system memory. | |
For it to work, both the decoder and the encoder must support | |
QSV acceleration and no filters must be used. | |
This option has no effect if the selected hwaccel is not available | |
or not supported by the chosen decoder. | |
Note that most acceleration methods are intended for playback and | |
will not be faster than software decoding on modern CPUs. | |
Additionally, ffmpeg will usually need to copy the decoded frames | |
from the GPU memory into the system memory, resulting in further | |
performance loss. This option is thus mainly useful for testing. | |
-hwaccel_device[:stream_specifier] hwaccel_device (input,per-stream) | |
Select a device to use for hardware acceleration. | |
This option only makes sense when the -hwaccel option is also | |
specified. It can either refer to an existing device created with | |
-init_hw_device by name, or it can create a new device as if | |
-init_hw_device type:hwaccel_device were called immediately before. | |
-hwaccels | |
List all hardware acceleration components enabled in this build of | |
ffmpeg. Actual runtime availability depends on the hardware and | |
its suitable driver being installed. | |
-fix_sub_duration_heartbeat[:stream_specifier] | |
Set a specific output video stream as the heartbeat stream | |
according to which to split and push through currently in-progress | |
subtitle upon receipt of a random access packet. | |
This lowers the latency of subtitles for which the end packet or | |
the following subtitle has not yet been received. As a drawback, | |
this will most likely lead to duplication of subtitle events in | |
order to cover the full duration, so when dealing with use cases | |
where latency of when the subtitle event is passed on to output is | |
not relevant this option should not be utilized. | |
Requires -fix_sub_duration to be set for the relevant input | |
subtitle stream for this to have any effect, as well as for the | |
input subtitle stream having to be directly mapped to the same | |
output in which the heartbeat stream resides. | |
Audio Options | |
-aframes number (output) | |
Set the number of audio frames to output. This is an obsolete alias | |
for "-frames:a", which you should use instead. | |
-ar[:stream_specifier] freq (input/output,per-stream) | |
Set the audio sampling frequency. For output streams it is set by | |
default to the frequency of the corresponding input stream. For | |
input streams this option only makes sense for audio grabbing | |
devices and raw demuxers and is mapped to the corresponding demuxer | |
options. | |
-aq q (output) | |
Set the audio quality (codec-specific, VBR). This is an alias for | |
-q:a. | |
-ac[:stream_specifier] channels (input/output,per-stream) | |
Set the number of audio channels. For output streams it is set by | |
default to the number of input audio channels. For input streams | |
this option only makes sense for audio grabbing devices and raw | |
demuxers and is mapped to the corresponding demuxer options. | |
-an (input/output) | |
As an input option, blocks all audio streams of a file from being | |
filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any output. | |
See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
As an output option, disables audio recording i.e. automatic | |
selection or mapping of any audio stream. For full manual control | |
see the "-map" option. | |
-acodec codec (input/output) | |
Set the audio codec. This is an alias for "-codec:a". | |
-sample_fmt[:stream_specifier] sample_fmt (output,per-stream) | |
Set the audio sample format. Use "-sample_fmts" to get a list of | |
supported sample formats. | |
-af filtergraph (output) | |
Create the filtergraph specified by filtergraph and use it to | |
filter the stream. | |
This is an alias for "-filter:a", see the -filter option. | |
Advanced Audio options | |
-atag fourcc/tag (output) | |
Force audio tag/fourcc. This is an alias for "-tag:a". | |
-guess_layout_max channels (input,per-stream) | |
If some input channel layout is not known, try to guess only if it | |
corresponds to at most the specified number of channels. For | |
example, 2 tells to ffmpeg to recognize 1 channel as mono and 2 | |
channels as stereo but not 6 channels as 5.1. The default is to | |
always try to guess. Use 0 to disable all guessing. | |
Subtitle options | |
-scodec codec (input/output) | |
Set the subtitle codec. This is an alias for "-codec:s". | |
-sn (input/output) | |
As an input option, blocks all subtitle streams of a file from | |
being filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any | |
output. See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
As an output option, disables subtitle recording i.e. automatic | |
selection or mapping of any subtitle stream. For full manual | |
control see the "-map" option. | |
Advanced Subtitle options | |
-fix_sub_duration | |
Fix subtitles durations. For each subtitle, wait for the next | |
packet in the same stream and adjust the duration of the first to | |
avoid overlap. This is necessary with some subtitles codecs, | |
especially DVB subtitles, because the duration in the original | |
packet is only a rough estimate and the end is actually marked by | |
an empty subtitle frame. Failing to use this option when necessary | |
can result in exaggerated durations or muxing failures due to non- | |
monotonic timestamps. | |
Note that this option will delay the output of all data until the | |
next subtitle packet is decoded: it may increase memory consumption | |
and latency a lot. | |
-canvas_size size | |
Set the size of the canvas used to render subtitles. | |
Advanced options | |
-map [-]input_file_id[:stream_specifier][?] | [linklabel] (output) | |
Create one or more streams in the output file. This option has two | |
forms for specifying the data source(s): the first selects one or | |
more streams from some input file (specified with "-i"), the second | |
takes an output from some complex filtergraph (specified with | |
"-filter_complex"). | |
In the first form, an output stream is created for every stream | |
from the input file with the index input_file_id. If | |
stream_specifier is given, only those streams that match the | |
specifier are used (see the Stream specifiers section for the | |
stream_specifier syntax). | |
A "-" character before the stream identifier creates a "negative" | |
mapping. It disables matching streams from already created | |
mappings. | |
A trailing "?" after the stream index will allow the map to be | |
optional: if the map matches no streams the map will be ignored | |
instead of failing. Note the map will still fail if an invalid | |
input file index is used; such as if the map refers to a non- | |
existent input. | |
An alternative [linklabel] form will map outputs from complex | |
filter graphs (see the -filter_complex option) to the output file. | |
linklabel must correspond to a defined output link label in the | |
graph. | |
This option may be specified multiple times, each adding more | |
streams to the output file. Any given input stream may also be | |
mapped any number of times as a source for different output | |
streams, e.g. in order to use different encoding options and/or | |
filters. The streams are created in the output in the same order in | |
which the "-map" options are given on the commandline. | |
Using this option disables the default mappings for this output | |
file. | |
Examples: | |
map everything | |
To map ALL streams from the first input file to output | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 output | |
select specific stream | |
If you have two audio streams in the first input file, these | |
streams are identified by 0:0 and 0:1. You can use "-map" to | |
select which streams to place in an output file. For example: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:1 out.wav | |
will map the second input stream in INPUT to the (single) | |
output stream in out.wav. | |
create multiple streams | |
To select the stream with index 2 from input file a.mov | |
(specified by the identifier 0:2), and stream with index 6 from | |
input b.mov (specified by the identifier 1:6), and copy them to | |
the output file out.mov: | |
ffmpeg -i a.mov -i b.mov -c copy -map 0:2 -map 1:6 out.mov | |
create multiple streams 2 | |
To select all video and the third audio stream from an input | |
file: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:v -map 0:a:2 OUTPUT | |
negative map | |
To map all the streams except the second audio, use negative | |
mappings | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 -map -0:a:1 OUTPUT | |
optional map | |
To map the video and audio streams from the first input, and | |
using the trailing "?", ignore the audio mapping if no audio | |
streams exist in the first input: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:v -map 0:a? OUTPUT | |
map by language | |
To pick the English audio stream: | |
ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:m:language:eng OUTPUT | |
-ignore_unknown | |
Ignore input streams with unknown type instead of failing if | |
copying such streams is attempted. | |
-copy_unknown | |
Allow input streams with unknown type to be copied instead of | |
failing if copying such streams is attempted. | |
-map_metadata[:metadata_spec_out] infile[:metadata_spec_in] | |
(output,per-metadata) | |
Set metadata information of the next output file from infile. Note | |
that those are file indices (zero-based), not filenames. Optional | |
metadata_spec_in/out parameters specify, which metadata to copy. A | |
metadata specifier can have the following forms: | |
g global metadata, i.e. metadata that applies to the whole file | |
s[:stream_spec] | |
per-stream metadata. stream_spec is a stream specifier as | |
described in the Stream specifiers chapter. In an input | |
metadata specifier, the first matching stream is copied from. | |
In an output metadata specifier, all matching streams are | |
copied to. | |
c:chapter_index | |
per-chapter metadata. chapter_index is the zero-based chapter | |
index. | |
p:program_index | |
per-program metadata. program_index is the zero-based program | |
index. | |
If metadata specifier is omitted, it defaults to global. | |
By default, global metadata is copied from the first input file, | |
per-stream and per-chapter metadata is copied along with | |
streams/chapters. These default mappings are disabled by creating | |
any mapping of the relevant type. A negative file index can be used | |
to create a dummy mapping that just disables automatic copying. | |
For example to copy metadata from the first stream of the input | |
file to global metadata of the output file: | |
ffmpeg -i in.ogg -map_metadata 0:s:0 out.mp3 | |
To do the reverse, i.e. copy global metadata to all audio streams: | |
ffmpeg -i in.mkv -map_metadata:s:a 0:g out.mkv | |
Note that simple 0 would work as well in this example, since global | |
metadata is assumed by default. | |
-map_chapters input_file_index (output) | |
Copy chapters from input file with index input_file_index to the | |
next output file. If no chapter mapping is specified, then chapters | |
are copied from the first input file with at least one chapter. Use | |
a negative file index to disable any chapter copying. | |
-benchmark (global) | |
Show benchmarking information at the end of an encode. Shows real, | |
system and user time used and maximum memory consumption. Maximum | |
memory consumption is not supported on all systems, it will usually | |
display as 0 if not supported. | |
-benchmark_all (global) | |
Show benchmarking information during the encode. Shows real, | |
system and user time used in various steps (audio/video | |
encode/decode). | |
-timelimit duration (global) | |
Exit after ffmpeg has been running for duration seconds in CPU user | |
time. | |
-dump (global) | |
Dump each input packet to stderr. | |
-hex (global) | |
When dumping packets, also dump the payload. | |
-readrate speed (input) | |
Limit input read speed. | |
Its value is a floating-point positive number which represents the | |
maximum duration of media, in seconds, that should be ingested in | |
one second of wallclock time. Default value is zero and represents | |
no imposed limitation on speed of ingestion. Value 1 represents | |
real-time speed and is equivalent to "-re". | |
Mainly used to simulate a capture device or live input stream (e.g. | |
when reading from a file). Should not be used with a low value | |
when input is an actual capture device or live stream as it may | |
cause packet loss. | |
It is useful for when flow speed of output packets is important, | |
such as live streaming. | |
-re (input) | |
Read input at native frame rate. This is equivalent to setting | |
"-readrate 1". | |
-readrate_initial_burst seconds | |
Set an initial read burst time, in seconds, after which | |
-re/-readrate will be enforced. | |
-vsync parameter (global) | |
-fps_mode[:stream_specifier] parameter (output,per-stream) | |
Set video sync method / framerate mode. vsync is applied to all | |
output video streams but can be overridden for a stream by setting | |
fps_mode. vsync is deprecated and will be removed in the future. | |
For compatibility reasons some of the values for vsync can be | |
specified as numbers (shown in parentheses in the following table). | |
passthrough (0) | |
Each frame is passed with its timestamp from the demuxer to the | |
muxer. | |
cfr (1) | |
Frames will be duplicated and dropped to achieve exactly the | |
requested constant frame rate. | |
vfr (2) | |
Frames are passed through with their timestamp or dropped so as | |
to prevent 2 frames from having the same timestamp. | |
auto (-1) | |
Chooses between cfr and vfr depending on muxer capabilities. | |
This is the default method. | |
Note that the timestamps may be further modified by the muxer, | |
after this. For example, in the case that the format option | |
avoid_negative_ts is enabled. | |
With -map you can select from which stream the timestamps should be | |
taken. You can leave either video or audio unchanged and sync the | |
remaining stream(s) to the unchanged one. | |
-frame_drop_threshold parameter | |
Frame drop threshold, which specifies how much behind video frames | |
can be before they are dropped. In frame rate units, so 1.0 is one | |
frame. The default is -1.1. One possible usecase is to avoid | |
framedrops in case of noisy timestamps or to increase frame drop | |
precision in case of exact timestamps. | |
-apad parameters (output,per-stream) | |
Pad the output audio stream(s). This is the same as applying "-af | |
apad". Argument is a string of filter parameters composed the same | |
as with the "apad" filter. "-shortest" must be set for this output | |
for the option to take effect. | |
-copyts | |
Do not process input timestamps, but keep their values without | |
trying to sanitize them. In particular, do not remove the initial | |
start time offset value. | |
Note that, depending on the vsync option or on specific muxer | |
processing (e.g. in case the format option avoid_negative_ts is | |
enabled) the output timestamps may mismatch with the input | |
timestamps even when this option is selected. | |
-start_at_zero | |
When used with copyts, shift input timestamps so they start at | |
zero. | |
This means that using e.g. "-ss 50" will make output timestamps | |
start at 50 seconds, regardless of what timestamp the input file | |
started at. | |
-copytb mode | |
Specify how to set the encoder timebase when stream copying. mode | |
is an integer numeric value, and can assume one of the following | |
values: | |
1 Use the demuxer timebase. | |
The time base is copied to the output encoder from the | |
corresponding input demuxer. This is sometimes required to | |
avoid non monotonically increasing timestamps when copying | |
video streams with variable frame rate. | |
0 Use the decoder timebase. | |
The time base is copied to the output encoder from the | |
corresponding input decoder. | |
-1 Try to make the choice automatically, in order to generate a | |
sane output. | |
Default value is -1. | |
-enc_time_base[:stream_specifier] timebase (output,per-stream) | |
Set the encoder timebase. timebase can assume one of the following | |
values: | |
0 Assign a default value according to the media type. | |
For video - use 1/framerate, for audio - use 1/samplerate. | |
demux | |
Use the timebase from the demuxer. | |
filter | |
Use the timebase from the filtergraph. | |
a positive number | |
Use the provided number as the timebase. | |
This field can be provided as a ratio of two integers (e.g. | |
1:24, 1:48000) or as a decimal number (e.g. 0.04166, 2.0833e-5) | |
Default value is 0. | |
-bitexact (input/output) | |
Enable bitexact mode for (de)muxer and (de/en)coder | |
-shortest (output) | |
Finish encoding when the shortest output stream ends. | |
Note that this option may require buffering frames, which | |
introduces extra latency. The maximum amount of this latency may be | |
controlled with the "-shortest_buf_duration" option. | |
-shortest_buf_duration duration (output) | |
The "-shortest" option may require buffering potentially large | |
amounts of data when at least one of the streams is "sparse" (i.e. | |
has large gaps between frames X this is typically the case for | |
subtitles). | |
This option controls the maximum duration of buffered frames in | |
seconds. Larger values may allow the "-shortest" option to produce | |
more accurate results, but increase memory use and latency. | |
The default value is 10 seconds. | |
-dts_delta_threshold threshold | |
Timestamp discontinuity delta threshold, expressed as a decimal | |
number of seconds. | |
The timestamp discontinuity correction enabled by this option is | |
only applied to input formats accepting timestamp discontinuity | |
(for which the "AVFMT_TS_DISCONT" flag is enabled), e.g. MPEG-TS | |
and HLS, and is automatically disabled when employing the "-copyts" | |
option (unless wrapping is detected). | |
If a timestamp discontinuity is detected whose absolute value is | |
greater than threshold, ffmpeg will remove the discontinuity by | |
decreasing/increasing the current DTS and PTS by the corresponding | |
delta value. | |
The default value is 10. | |
-dts_error_threshold threshold | |
Timestamp error delta threshold, expressed as a decimal number of | |
seconds. | |
The timestamp correction enabled by this option is only applied to | |
input formats not accepting timestamp discontinuity (for which the | |
"AVFMT_TS_DISCONT" flag is not enabled). | |
If a timestamp discontinuity is detected whose absolute value is | |
greater than threshold, ffmpeg will drop the PTS/DTS timestamp | |
value. | |
The default value is "3600*30" (30 hours), which is arbitrarily | |
picked and quite conservative. | |
-muxdelay seconds (output) | |
Set the maximum demux-decode delay. | |
-muxpreload seconds (output) | |
Set the initial demux-decode delay. | |
-streamid output-stream-index:new-value (output) | |
Assign a new stream-id value to an output stream. This option | |
should be specified prior to the output filename to which it | |
applies. For the situation where multiple output files exist, a | |
streamid may be reassigned to a different value. | |
For example, to set the stream 0 PID to 33 and the stream 1 PID to | |
36 for an output mpegts file: | |
ffmpeg -i inurl -streamid 0:33 -streamid 1:36 out.ts | |
-bsf[:stream_specifier] bitstream_filters (input/output,per-stream) | |
Apply bitstream filters to matching streams. The filters are | |
applied to each packet as it is received from the demuxer (when | |
used as an input option) or before it is sent to the muxer (when | |
used as an output option). | |
bitstream_filters is a comma-separated list of bitstream filter | |
specifications, each of the form | |
<filter>[=<optname0>=<optval0>:<optname1>=<optval1>:...] | |
Any of the ',=:' characters that are to be a part of an option | |
value need to be escaped with a backslash. | |
Use the "-bsfs" option to get the list of bitstream filters. | |
E.g. | |
ffmpeg -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -i h264.mp4 -c:v copy -an out.h264 | |
applies the "h264_mp4toannexb" bitstream filter (which converts | |
MP4-encapsulated H.264 stream to Annex B) to the input video | |
stream. | |
On the other hand, | |
ffmpeg -i file.mov -an -vn -bsf:s mov2textsub -c:s copy -f rawvideo sub.txt | |
applies the "mov2textsub" bitstream filter (which extracts text | |
from MOV subtitles) to the output subtitle stream. Note, however, | |
that since both examples use "-c copy", it matters little whether | |
the filters are applied on input or output - that would change if | |
transcoding was happening. | |
-tag[:stream_specifier] codec_tag (input/output,per-stream) | |
Force a tag/fourcc for matching streams. | |
-timecode hh:mm:ssSEPff | |
Specify Timecode for writing. SEP is ':' for non drop timecode and | |
';' (or '.') for drop. | |
ffmpeg -i input.mpg -timecode 01:02:03.04 -r 30000/1001 -s ntsc output.mpg | |
-filter_complex filtergraph (global) | |
Define a complex filtergraph, i.e. one with arbitrary number of | |
inputs and/or outputs. For simple graphs -- those with one input | |
and one output of the same type -- see the -filter options. | |
filtergraph is a description of the filtergraph, as described in | |
the ``Filtergraph syntax'' section of the ffmpeg-filters manual. | |
Input link labels must refer to either input streams or loopback | |
decoders. For input streams, use the | |
"[file_index:stream_specifier]" syntax (i.e. the same as -map | |
uses). If stream_specifier matches multiple streams, the first one | |
will be used. | |
For decoders, the link label must be [dec:dec_idx], where dec_idx | |
is the index of the loopback decoder to be connected to given | |
input. | |
An unlabeled input will be connected to the first unused input | |
stream of the matching type. | |
Output link labels are referred to with -map. Unlabeled outputs are | |
added to the first output file. | |
Note that with this option it is possible to use only lavfi sources | |
without normal input files. | |
For example, to overlay an image over video | |
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i image.png -filter_complex '[0:v][1:v]overlay[out]' -map | |
'[out]' out.mkv | |
Here "[0:v]" refers to the first video stream in the first input | |
file, which is linked to the first (main) input of the overlay | |
filter. Similarly the first video stream in the second input is | |
linked to the second (overlay) input of overlay. | |
Assuming there is only one video stream in each input file, we can | |
omit input labels, so the above is equivalent to | |
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i image.png -filter_complex 'overlay[out]' -map | |
'[out]' out.mkv | |
Furthermore we can omit the output label and the single output from | |
the filter graph will be added to the output file automatically, so | |
we can simply write | |
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i image.png -filter_complex 'overlay' out.mkv | |
As a special exception, you can use a bitmap subtitle stream as | |
input: it will be converted into a video with the same size as the | |
largest video in the file, or 720x576 if no video is present. Note | |
that this is an experimental and temporary solution. It will be | |
removed once libavfilter has proper support for subtitles. | |
For example, to hardcode subtitles on top of a DVB-T recording | |
stored in MPEG-TS format, delaying the subtitles by 1 second: | |
ffmpeg -i input.ts -filter_complex \ | |
'[#0x2ef] setpts=PTS+1/TB [sub] ; [#0x2d0] [sub] overlay' \ | |
-sn -map '#0x2dc' output.mkv | |
(0x2d0, 0x2dc and 0x2ef are the MPEG-TS PIDs of respectively the | |
video, audio and subtitles streams; 0:0, 0:3 and 0:7 would have | |
worked too) | |
To generate 5 seconds of pure red video using lavfi "color" source: | |
ffmpeg -filter_complex 'color=c=red' -t 5 out.mkv | |
-filter_complex_threads nb_threads (global) | |
Defines how many threads are used to process a filter_complex | |
graph. Similar to filter_threads but used for "-filter_complex" | |
graphs only. The default is the number of available CPUs. | |
-lavfi filtergraph (global) | |
Define a complex filtergraph, i.e. one with arbitrary number of | |
inputs and/or outputs. Equivalent to -filter_complex. | |
-accurate_seek (input) | |
This option enables or disables accurate seeking in input files | |
with the -ss option. It is enabled by default, so seeking is | |
accurate when transcoding. Use -noaccurate_seek to disable it, | |
which may be useful e.g. when copying some streams and transcoding | |
the others. | |
-seek_timestamp (input) | |
This option enables or disables seeking by timestamp in input files | |
with the -ss option. It is disabled by default. If enabled, the | |
argument to the -ss option is considered an actual timestamp, and | |
is not offset by the start time of the file. This matters only for | |
files which do not start from timestamp 0, such as transport | |
streams. | |
-thread_queue_size size (input/output) | |
For input, this option sets the maximum number of queued packets | |
when reading from the file or device. With low latency / high rate | |
live streams, packets may be discarded if they are not read in a | |
timely manner; setting this value can force ffmpeg to use a | |
separate input thread and read packets as soon as they arrive. By | |
default ffmpeg only does this if multiple inputs are specified. | |
For output, this option specified the maximum number of packets | |
that may be queued to each muxing thread. | |
-sdp_file file (global) | |
Print sdp information for an output stream to file. This allows | |
dumping sdp information when at least one output isn't an rtp | |
stream. (Requires at least one of the output formats to be rtp). | |
-discard (input) | |
Allows discarding specific streams or frames from streams. Any | |
input stream can be fully discarded, using value "all" whereas | |
selective discarding of frames from a stream occurs at the demuxer | |
and is not supported by all demuxers. | |
none | |
Discard no frame. | |
default | |
Default, which discards no frames. | |
noref | |
Discard all non-reference frames. | |
bidir | |
Discard all bidirectional frames. | |
nokey | |
Discard all frames excepts keyframes. | |
all Discard all frames. | |
-abort_on flags (global) | |
Stop and abort on various conditions. The following flags are | |
available: | |
empty_output | |
No packets were passed to the muxer, the output is empty. | |
empty_output_stream | |
No packets were passed to the muxer in some of the output | |
streams. | |
-max_error_rate (global) | |
Set fraction of decoding frame failures across all inputs which | |
when crossed ffmpeg will return exit code 69. Crossing this | |
threshold does not terminate processing. Range is a floating-point | |
number between 0 to 1. Default is 2/3. | |
-xerror (global) | |
Stop and exit on error | |
-max_muxing_queue_size packets (output,per-stream) | |
When transcoding audio and/or video streams, ffmpeg will not begin | |
writing into the output until it has one packet for each such | |
stream. While waiting for that to happen, packets for other streams | |
are buffered. This option sets the size of this buffer, in packets, | |
for the matching output stream. | |
The default value of this option should be high enough for most | |
uses, so only touch this option if you are sure that you need it. | |
-muxing_queue_data_threshold bytes (output,per-stream) | |
This is a minimum threshold until which the muxing queue size is | |
not taken into account. Defaults to 50 megabytes per stream, and is | |
based on the overall size of packets passed to the muxer. | |
-auto_conversion_filters (global) | |
Enable automatically inserting format conversion filters in all | |
filter graphs, including those defined by -vf, -af, -filter_complex | |
and -lavfi. If filter format negotiation requires a conversion, the | |
initialization of the filters will fail. Conversions can still be | |
performed by inserting the relevant conversion filter (scale, | |
aresample) in the graph. On by default, to explicitly disable it | |
you need to specify "-noauto_conversion_filters". | |
-bits_per_raw_sample[:stream_specifier] value (output,per-stream) | |
Declare the number of bits per raw sample in the given output | |
stream to be value. Note that this option sets the information | |
provided to the encoder/muxer, it does not change the stream to | |
conform to this value. Setting values that do not match the stream | |
properties may result in encoding failures or invalid output files. | |
-stats_enc_pre[:stream_specifier] path (output,per-stream) | |
-stats_enc_post[:stream_specifier] path (output,per-stream) | |
-stats_mux_pre[:stream_specifier] path (output,per-stream) | |
Write per-frame encoding information about the matching streams | |
into the file given by path. | |
-stats_enc_pre writes information about raw video or audio frames | |
right before they are sent for encoding, while -stats_enc_post | |
writes information about encoded packets as they are received from | |
the encoder. -stats_mux_pre writes information about packets just | |
as they are about to be sent to the muxer. Every frame or packet | |
produces one line in the specified file. The format of this line is | |
controlled by -stats_enc_pre_fmt / -stats_enc_post_fmt / | |
-stats_mux_pre_fmt. | |
When stats for multiple streams are written into a single file, the | |
lines corresponding to different streams will be interleaved. The | |
precise order of this interleaving is not specified and not | |
guaranteed to remain stable between different invocations of the | |
program, even with the same options. | |
-stats_enc_pre_fmt[:stream_specifier] format_spec (output,per-stream) | |
-stats_enc_post_fmt[:stream_specifier] format_spec (output,per-stream) | |
-stats_mux_pre_fmt[:stream_specifier] format_spec (output,per-stream) | |
Specify the format for the lines written with -stats_enc_pre / | |
-stats_enc_post / -stats_mux_pre. | |
format_spec is a string that may contain directives of the form | |
{fmt}. format_spec is backslash-escaped --- use \{, \}, and \\ to | |
write a literal {, }, or \, respectively, into the output. | |
The directives given with fmt may be one of the following: | |
fidx | |
Index of the output file. | |
sidx | |
Index of the output stream in the file. | |
n Frame number. Pre-encoding: number of frames sent to the | |
encoder so far. Post-encoding: number of packets received from | |
the encoder so far. Muxing: number of packets submitted to the | |
muxer for this stream so far. | |
ni Input frame number. Index of the input frame (i.e. output by a | |
decoder) that corresponds to this output frame or packet. -1 if | |
unavailable. | |
tb Timebase in which this frame/packet's timestamps are expressed, | |
as a rational number num/den. Note that encoder and muxer may | |
use different timebases. | |
tbi Timebase for ptsi, as a rational number num/den. Available when | |
ptsi is available, 0/1 otherwise. | |
pts Presentation timestamp of the frame or packet, as an integer. | |
Should be multiplied by the timebase to compute presentation | |
time. | |
ptsi | |
Presentation timestamp of the input frame (see ni), as an | |
integer. Should be multiplied by tbi to compute presentation | |
time. Printed as (2^63 - 1 = 9223372036854775807) when not | |
available. | |
t Presentation time of the frame or packet, as a decimal number. | |
Equal to pts multiplied by tb. | |
ti Presentation time of the input frame (see ni), as a decimal | |
number. Equal to ptsi multiplied by tbi. Printed as inf when | |
not available. | |
dts (packet) | |
Decoding timestamp of the packet, as an integer. Should be | |
multiplied by the timebase to compute presentation time. | |
dt (packet) | |
Decoding time of the frame or packet, as a decimal number. | |
Equal to dts multiplied by tb. | |
sn (frame,audio) | |
Number of audio samples sent to the encoder so far. | |
samp (frame,audio) | |
Number of audio samples in the frame. | |
size (packet) | |
Size of the encoded packet in bytes. | |
br (packet) | |
Current bitrate in bits per second. | |
abr (packet) | |
Average bitrate for the whole stream so far, in bits per | |
second, -1 if it cannot be determined at this point. | |
key (packet) | |
Character 'K' if the packet contains a keyframe, character 'N' | |
otherwise. | |
Directives tagged with packet may only be used with | |
-stats_enc_post_fmt and -stats_mux_pre_fmt. | |
Directives tagged with frame may only be used with | |
-stats_enc_pre_fmt. | |
Directives tagged with audio may only be used with audio streams. | |
The default format strings are: | |
pre-encoding | |
{fidx} {sidx} {n} {t} | |
post-encoding | |
{fidx} {sidx} {n} {t} | |
In the future, new items may be added to the end of the default | |
formatting strings. Users who depend on the format staying exactly | |
the same, should prescribe it manually. | |
Note that stats for different streams written into the same file | |
may have different formats. | |
Preset files | |
A preset file contains a sequence of option=value pairs, one for each | |
line, specifying a sequence of options which would be awkward to | |
specify on the command line. Lines starting with the hash ('#') | |
character are ignored and are used to provide comments. Check the | |
presets directory in the FFmpeg source tree for examples. | |
There are two types of preset files: ffpreset and avpreset files. | |
ffpreset files | |
ffpreset files are specified with the "vpre", "apre", "spre", and | |
"fpre" options. The "fpre" option takes the filename of the preset | |
instead of a preset name as input and can be used for any kind of | |
codec. For the "vpre", "apre", and "spre" options, the options | |
specified in a preset file are applied to the currently selected codec | |
of the same type as the preset option. | |
The argument passed to the "vpre", "apre", and "spre" preset options | |
identifies the preset file to use according to the following rules: | |
First ffmpeg searches for a file named arg.ffpreset in the directories | |
$FFMPEG_DATADIR (if set), and $HOME/.ffmpeg, and in the datadir defined | |
at configuration time (usually PREFIX/share/ffmpeg) or in a ffpresets | |
folder along the executable on win32, in that order. For example, if | |
the argument is "libvpx-1080p", it will search for the file | |
libvpx-1080p.ffpreset. | |
If no such file is found, then ffmpeg will search for a file named | |
codec_name-arg.ffpreset in the above-mentioned directories, where | |
codec_name is the name of the codec to which the preset file options | |
will be applied. For example, if you select the video codec with | |
"-vcodec libvpx" and use "-vpre 1080p", then it will search for the | |
file libvpx-1080p.ffpreset. | |
avpreset files | |
avpreset files are specified with the "pre" option. They work similar | |
to ffpreset files, but they only allow encoder- specific options. | |
Therefore, an option=value pair specifying an encoder cannot be used. | |
When the "pre" option is specified, ffmpeg will look for files with the | |
suffix .avpreset in the directories $AVCONV_DATADIR (if set), and | |
$HOME/.avconv, and in the datadir defined at configuration time | |
(usually PREFIX/share/ffmpeg), in that order. | |
First ffmpeg searches for a file named codec_name-arg.avpreset in the | |
above-mentioned directories, where codec_name is the name of the codec | |
to which the preset file options will be applied. For example, if you | |
select the video codec with "-vcodec libvpx" and use "-pre 1080p", then | |
it will search for the file libvpx-1080p.avpreset. | |
If no such file is found, then ffmpeg will search for a file named | |
arg.avpreset in the same directories. | |
vstats file format | |
The "-vstats" and "-vstats_file" options enable generation of a file | |
containing statistics about the generated video outputs. | |
The "-vstats_version" option controls the format version of the | |
generated file. | |
With version 1 the format is: | |
frame= <FRAME> q= <FRAME_QUALITY> PSNR= <PSNR> f_size= <FRAME_SIZE> s_size= <STREAM_SIZE>kB time= <TIMESTAMP> br= <BITRATE>kbits/s avg_br= <AVERAGE_BITRATE>kbits/s | |
With version 2 the format is: | |
out= <OUT_FILE_INDEX> st= <OUT_FILE_STREAM_INDEX> frame= <FRAME_NUMBER> q= <FRAME_QUALITY>f PSNR= <PSNR> f_size= <FRAME_SIZE> s_size= <STREAM_SIZE>kB time= <TIMESTAMP> br= <BITRATE>kbits/s avg_br= <AVERAGE_BITRATE>kbits/s | |
The value corresponding to each key is described below: | |
avg_br | |
average bitrate expressed in Kbits/s | |
br bitrate expressed in Kbits/s | |
frame | |
number of encoded frame | |
out out file index | |
PSNR | |
Peak Signal to Noise Ratio | |
q quality of the frame | |
f_size | |
encoded packet size expressed as number of bytes | |
s_size | |
stream size expressed in KiB | |
st out file stream index | |
time | |
time of the packet | |
type | |
picture type | |
See also the -stats_enc options for an alternative way to show encoding | |
statistics. | |
EXAMPLES | |
Video and Audio grabbing | |
If you specify the input format and device then ffmpeg can grab video | |
and audio directly. | |
ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /tmp/out.mpg | |
Or with an ALSA audio source (mono input, card id 1) instead of OSS: | |
ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 1 -i hw:1 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /tmp/out.mpg | |
Note that you must activate the right video source and channel before | |
launching ffmpeg with any TV viewer such as | |
<http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/> by Gerd Knorr. You also have to set | |
the audio recording levels correctly with a standard mixer. | |
X11 grabbing | |
Grab the X11 display with ffmpeg via | |
ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size cif -framerate 25 -i :0.0 /tmp/out.mpg | |
0.0 is display.screen number of your X11 server, same as the DISPLAY | |
environment variable. | |
ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size cif -framerate 25 -i :0.0+10,20 /tmp/out.mpg | |
0.0 is display.screen number of your X11 server, same as the DISPLAY | |
environment variable. 10 is the x-offset and 20 the y-offset for the | |
grabbing. | |
Video and Audio file format conversion | |
Any supported file format and protocol can serve as input to ffmpeg: | |
Examples: | |
o You can use YUV files as input: | |
ffmpeg -i /tmp/test%d.Y /tmp/out.mpg | |
It will use the files: | |
/tmp/test0.Y, /tmp/test0.U, /tmp/test0.V, | |
/tmp/test1.Y, /tmp/test1.U, /tmp/test1.V, etc... | |
The Y files use twice the resolution of the U and V files. They are | |
raw files, without header. They can be generated by all decent | |
video decoders. You must specify the size of the image with the -s | |
option if ffmpeg cannot guess it. | |
o You can input from a raw YUV420P file: | |
ffmpeg -i /tmp/test.yuv /tmp/out.avi | |
test.yuv is a file containing raw YUV planar data. Each frame is | |
composed of the Y plane followed by the U and V planes at half | |
vertical and horizontal resolution. | |
o You can output to a raw YUV420P file: | |
ffmpeg -i mydivx.avi hugefile.yuv | |
o You can set several input files and output files: | |
ffmpeg -i /tmp/a.wav -s 640x480 -i /tmp/a.yuv /tmp/a.mpg | |
Converts the audio file a.wav and the raw YUV video file a.yuv to | |
MPEG file a.mpg. | |
o You can also do audio and video conversions at the same time: | |
ffmpeg -i /tmp/a.wav -ar 22050 /tmp/a.mp2 | |
Converts a.wav to MPEG audio at 22050 Hz sample rate. | |
o You can encode to several formats at the same time and define a | |
mapping from input stream to output streams: | |
ffmpeg -i /tmp/a.wav -map 0:a -b:a 64k /tmp/a.mp2 -map 0:a -b:a 128k /tmp/b.mp2 | |
Converts a.wav to a.mp2 at 64 kbits and to b.mp2 at 128 kbits. | |
'-map file:index' specifies which input stream is used for each | |
output stream, in the order of the definition of output streams. | |
o You can transcode decrypted VOBs: | |
ffmpeg -i snatch_1.vob -f avi -c:v mpeg4 -b:v 800k -g 300 -bf 2 -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k snatch.avi | |
This is a typical DVD ripping example; the input is a VOB file, the | |
output an AVI file with MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio. Note that in | |
this command we use B-frames so the MPEG-4 stream is DivX5 | |
compatible, and GOP size is 300 which means one intra frame every | |
10 seconds for 29.97fps input video. Furthermore, the audio stream | |
is MP3-encoded so you need to enable LAME support by passing | |
"--enable-libmp3lame" to configure. The mapping is particularly | |
useful for DVD transcoding to get the desired audio language. | |
NOTE: To see the supported input formats, use "ffmpeg -demuxers". | |
o You can extract images from a video, or create a video from many | |
images: | |
For extracting images from a video: | |
ffmpeg -i foo.avi -r 1 -s WxH -f image2 foo-%03d.jpeg | |
This will extract one video frame per second from the video and | |
will output them in files named foo-001.jpeg, foo-002.jpeg, etc. | |
Images will be rescaled to fit the new WxH values. | |
If you want to extract just a limited number of frames, you can use | |
the above command in combination with the "-frames:v" or "-t" | |
option, or in combination with -ss to start extracting from a | |
certain point in time. | |
For creating a video from many images: | |
ffmpeg -f image2 -framerate 12 -i foo-%03d.jpeg -s WxH foo.avi | |
The syntax "foo-%03d.jpeg" specifies to use a decimal number | |
composed of three digits padded with zeroes to express the sequence | |
number. It is the same syntax supported by the C printf function, | |
but only formats accepting a normal integer are suitable. | |
When importing an image sequence, -i also supports expanding shell- | |
like wildcard patterns (globbing) internally, by selecting the | |
image2-specific "-pattern_type glob" option. | |
For example, for creating a video from filenames matching the glob | |
pattern "foo-*.jpeg": | |
ffmpeg -f image2 -pattern_type glob -framerate 12 -i 'foo-*.jpeg' -s WxH foo.avi | |
o You can put many streams of the same type in the output: | |
ffmpeg -i test1.avi -i test2.avi -map 1:1 -map 1:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:0 -c copy -y test12.nut | |
The resulting output file test12.nut will contain the first four | |
streams from the input files in reverse order. | |
o To force CBR video output: | |
ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -b 4000k -minrate 4000k -maxrate 4000k -bufsize 1835k out.m2v | |
o The four options lmin, lmax, mblmin and mblmax use 'lambda' units, | |
but you may use the QP2LAMBDA constant to easily convert from 'q' | |
units: | |
ffmpeg -i src.ext -lmax 21*QP2LAMBDA dst.ext | |
SEE ALSO | |
ffmpeg-all(1), ffplay(1), ffprobe(1), ffmpeg-utils(1), | |
ffmpeg-scaler(1), ffmpeg-resampler(1), ffmpeg-codecs(1), | |
ffmpeg-bitstream-filters(1), ffmpeg-formats(1), ffmpeg-devices(1), | |
ffmpeg-protocols(1), ffmpeg-filters(1) | |
AUTHORS | |
The FFmpeg developers. | |
For details about the authorship, see the Git history of the project | |
(https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg), e.g. by typing the command git log in | |
the FFmpeg source directory, or browsing the online repository at | |
<https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg>. | |
Maintainers for the specific components are listed in the file | |
MAINTAINERS in the source code tree. | |
FFMPEG(1) | |