A quick guide to using FFmpeg to convert media files | Opensource.com
There are many open source tools out there for editing, tweaking, and converting multimedia into exactly what you need. Tools like Audacity or Handbrake are fantastic, but sometimes you just want to change a file from one format into another quickly. Enter FFmpeg.
FFmpeg is a collection of different projects for handling multimedia files. It's often used behind the scenes in many other media-related projects. Despite its name, it has nothing to do with the Moving Picture Experts Group or the myriad multimedia formats it has created.
In this article I'll be using FFmpeg through the command-line tool ffmpeg, which is only a single, small piece of the FFmpeg project. It's available on many different operating systems and is included in some operating systems by default. It can be downloaded from the FFmpeg website or through most package managers.
FFmpeg is a powerful tool that can do almost anything you can imagine with multimedia files. In this article, we are interested in using it to convert files, so we won't be taking a deep dive into its entire feature set. Before we look at using FFmpeg, first we need to take a quick look at what a media file exactly is.
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