Jul 22, 2011 · The FFmpeg CLI (we usually reffer to it as ffmpeg.c to avoid confusion) has speed-up improvements due to threading, as well as statistics options, and the ability to pass option …

FFmpeg has always been a very experimental and developer-driven project. It is a key component in many multimedia projects and has new features added constantly.

2 days ago · ffmpeg builds a transcoding pipeline out of the components listed below. The program’s operation then consists of input data chunks flowing from the sources down the …

The following documentation is regenerated nightly, and corresponds to the newest FFmpeg revision. Consult your locally installed documentation for older versions.

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process …

2 days ago · FFmpeg can use the OpenJPEG libraries for decoding/encoding J2K videos. Go to http://www.openjpeg.org/ to get the libraries and follow the installation instructions.

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 …

FFmpeg can basically stream through one of two ways: It either streams to a some "other server", which re-streams for it to multiple clients, or it can stream via UDP/TCP directly to some single …

Jun 22, 2025 · You can see what you are using by referring to the ffmpeg console output during encoding (yuv420p or similar for 8-bit, and yuv420p10le or similar for 10-bit). 8-bit is more …

Apr 18, 2024 · ffmpeg needs to be built with the --enable-gpl--enable-libx265 configuration flags and requires x265 to be installed on your system. The Compilation Guides show you how to …