akando42 / ffmpeg-cheat-sheet

FFMPEG cheatsheets

ffmpeg-cheat-sheet

Play an IP Camera Stream

ffplay "rtsp://username:password@192.168.0.102:554/abcd"

Resize VIDEO

$ ffmpeg -i originalVideo.mov -vf scale=1080:-1 scaledVideo.mp4

Push IP Cam RTSP stream to a RTMP server for distribution

$ ffmpeg -an -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://username:password@192.168.0.102:554/abcd" -tune zerolatency -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt + -c:v copy -f flv -flvflags no_duration_filesize rtmp://123.0.0.1:1935/live/test

Trim MP4 Meta Data

$ ffmpeg -i boring.mp4 -ss 00:00:03 -t 00:00:08 -async 1 focus.mp4
(ss: start_trim, t: duration, i: input video)

Convert mp4 to GIF

$ ffmpeg -ss 0 -t 10 -i xn.mp4 -vf "fps=10,scale=640:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 xn.gif

Check MP4 Meta Data

$ ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c copy -map_metadata 0 -map_metadata:s:v 0:s:v -map_metadata:s:a 0:s:a -f ffmetadata in.txt

Flip and Rotate Video 360

$ ffplay "rtsp://admin:123@19268.0.100:554/onvif1" -vf "transpose=3, transpose=2,format=yuv420p"

Stream a MP4 Video to RTSP Server

$ ffmpeg -re -stream_loop -1 -i bodycam_08012022.mov -c copy -f rtsp rtsp://localhost:8554/mystream -b:v 2M -maxrate 2M -bufsize 1M

List all wired Video and Audio capture devices

$ ffmpeg -f avfoundation -list_devices true -i ""

Record Webcam to an mp4 files

$ ffmpeg -f avfoundation -framerate 30 -video_size 1280x960 -i "0:0" "../output.mp4"

Record IP RTSP Stream to mp4 files

$ ffmpeg -i "rtsp://username:password@192.168.1.123:554/onvif1" "../recorded.mp4"

Combine Image Files into one MP4 video

Create Bash script with concat.sh with content with create list of all files in folder

for f in *.av; do echo "file '$f'" >> mylist.txt; done

Concat all the files

$ ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i mylist.txt -c copy 2022_08_21_fish_navigation.mp4

Generating png images from an mp4 video

$ ffmpeg -i Matrix_Challenge.mp4 -vf fps=1 thumb%04d.png

Splitting Videos into one second strunk

$ ffmpeg -i 400x_07_27_2022.mp4 -c copy -map 0 -segment_time 1 -f segment output_video%03d.mp4