FFmpeg

Overview

FFmpeg is the Swiss Army knife of media processing. It handles virtually every audio and video format, codec, and container in existence. This skill covers format conversion, codec transcoding, trimming, concatenation, filtering, compression, thumbnail extraction, subtitle embedding, audio normalization, GIF creation, watermarking, and and batch loops. Every command below was run against FFmpeg 6.1.

Instructions

Step 1: Installation

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install -y ffmpeg

# macOS
brew install ffmpeg