FFmpeg Toolkit

Comprehensive guide for video and audio processing with ffmpeg.

Overview

This skill provides guidance on using ffmpeg for common video and audio operations. ffmpeg is a powerful command-line tool for processing multimedia files - converting formats, trimming, resizing, extracting audio, creating GIFs, and much more.

Core Principles

Always Use These Flags

• -hide_banner - Suppress ffmpeg version info for cleaner output
• -y - Overwrite output file without asking (for automation)

When to Use -c copy (Stream Copy)

Use -c copy when you want to:

• Preserve original quality (no re-encoding)
• Process quickly (10-100x faster than re-encoding)
• Keep file size similar to source