

So here in this post, I will introduce 31 most commonly used FFmpeg commands with examples to perform various tasks like converting media formats, trimming videos, extracting audio/video streams, etc.

You will need to type commands with your keyboard to transcode multimedia files and streams.

It packs many encoders and decoders, making it powerful enough to support almost all common and uncommon multimedia formats.įFmpeg comes with a learning curve especially if you are new to a command line tool. FFmpeg is a free and open-source command line-based tool to handle video, audio, and other multimedia files.
