Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg: Learn to Use the Open Source Multimedia-Processing Tool like a Pro

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Create, edit, modify and convert multimedia files using FFmpeg, the most versatile open source audio and video processing tool available for Linux, Mac and Windows users. After reading this book, you will be able to work with video and audio files, images, text, animations, fonts, subtitles and metadata like a pro.

It begins with a simple introduction to FFmpeg executables — ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay, and explains how you can use them to process multimedia containers, streams, audio channels, maps and metadata. It then describes how you can easily edit, enhance and convert audio, video, image and text files. There are dedicated chapters for filters, audio, subtitles and metadata, as well as FFmpeg tips and tricks. Sample lists of FFmpeg filters, encoders, decoders, formats and codecs are also available as appendices.

Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg is for anyone who needs to edit or process multimedia files including studio professionals, broadcast personnel, content creators, podcasters, librarians, archivists and webmasters. It will be indispensable for those wanting to process a variety of multimedia files from the command line and inside shell scripts or custom-built software.

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About the author

V. Subhash

V. Subhash is an invisible Indian writer, programmer and illustrator. He has written and illustrated over two-dozen mostly non-fiction books including one of the biggest jokebooks of all time. He has also created numerous software applications for desktop, mobile and web.

Subhash is a native of Tamil Nadu and lives in Kerala with his wife, kid and mistress. Subhash has numerous hobbies and interests, several of which have become the subject of his books.

Subhash is notorious in the UFO community for claiming that aliens do not exist, that is, on Earth. His probe into ‘aliens’ revealed that they are just ordinary employees of US military and space agencies. He tried to have pet tortoises but they died in a parking accident. Everyone was crushed.