About
a very simple, tiny and intuitive ffmpeg wrapper with a cli interface for inspecting & transforming media files supported by the original ffmpeg software.
Why
I wanted to learn more about ffmpeg and dig deep into its use cases, so I tried to build a simple wrapper that is consdered a shortcut for ffmpeg.
Features
- Inspecting a video file to get its info including (duration, size, thumbnail, ... etc).
- Transforming a video file (converting, resizing and compressing).
- Generating a HLS playlist from a video file.
Requirements
ffmpegcommand lineffprobecommand line
Downloads
go to the releases page.
Usage
for now, execute the downloaded binary with the
--helpflag, example:
$ ./vidutils_linux_amd64 --help
Thanks To
- H.264 Video Encoding Guide
- CRF Guide (Constant Rate Factor in x264, x265 and libvpx)
- Creating A Production Ready Multi Bitrate HLS VOD stream
- How can I reduce a video's size with ffmpeg?
- Video Quality – What is Video Bitrate(kbps), Pixels (p) & Aspect Ratios
- How do I reduze the size of a video to a target size?
- Resize/Scale/Change Resolution of a Video using FFmpeg Easily
- How to consider bitrate, -maxrate and -bufsize of a video for web
- How much data does YouTube actually use?
- YouTube Audio Quality Bitrate
