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 pipeline integration with tools like yt-dlp and gallery-dl.

Instructions

Step 1: Installation

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install -y ffmpeg

# macOS
brew install ffmpeg

# Verify
ffmpeg -version