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What is FFmpeg?

FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

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FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

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Angela T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to Use and More Control in Processing Video and Audio"
It is easy and quick to use where you don't have to open another application to use it. As long as you're comfortable with using the command line, ...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"FFmpeg, your way out of the codec hussle"
Fast, easy to use, good documentation, feature complete.
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F. Javier P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The swiss-knife of the video manipulation"
You can do almost anything you want. A lot of other products are based on this piece of software. And it's free!
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Asaf K.
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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

The best I liked with FFmpeg, is that it can decode any known source I ever see, and I know it will not disappoint me in future... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

Doesn't has a real support.

Very hard to use mailing list Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

Take it!

Itls de-facto tool for video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

I implement a decoder for h.264/HEVC based on media foundation transform, FFmpeg give me the ability of hardware acceleration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Oksana T.
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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

Command Line Interface : ffmpeg , ffprobe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

the documentation contains few examples, so you often have to look for examples on the Internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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many examples and tips can be found on the Internet at sites:

https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ffmpeg

https://habr.com/ru/hub/video

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ffmpeg Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

video converting from mvk to mpg , splitting strime to frames, read video from stream save video, get metadata of videos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

Fast, easy to use, good documentation, feature complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

Commands can become very complex and long Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

If you are not afraid of the console and know a bit about codecs, this is the tool to automate video conversion tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Must have tool in the post production pipeline management or video heavy website backend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Prakash R.
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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

Almost all encoder and decoder supports with great documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

There is nothing about ffmpeg to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

If you want to work on multimedia processing then ffmpeg is great tool for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have encoded live stream with ffmpeg. Also created video converted applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

You can transcode you videos and image like whatever you want. Easily integratable with other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

Version difference are not properly explaned sometime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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No Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Video transcoding

Compression

Concatenate

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

I like the Omni page that's very helpful to learn many things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

There are repetitive things. need to remove redundancy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

definitely, I would do . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

different types of problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

FFmpeg is just about the best video manipulation tool that has ever been made. Having a command line tool that works across almost every platform is fantastic. Excellent options and there is almost nothing that you can not do with this tool, I use it all the time in conjunction with PHP, Perl, and Python to automate the most hideous repetitive video tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

There is a huge learning curve to use this tool and you have to know a command line environment. It is something that will never change because of the nature of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

If you need to do hard core nasty big scale video manipulation, conversion, or transcoding then you need to look no further, FFmpeg does it best (when glued together with something like PHP, Python, or Perl.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Huge problems have ben solved in manipulating thousands of hours of video content. It has all been automated using FFmpeg. We are also able to spider content and harvest metadata over thousands of records. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

FFmpeg gives so many options for processing video, even beyond your stated goal. That flexibility provides great options on the command line, and even when using as a container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

Some of the options you can invoke on the command line require specific ordering that isn't necessarily stated in the documentation, or isn't easy to access. This requires extra tinkering with little to go on as to what the error messages are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

Make use of the FFmpeg documentation and don't try too hard to make StackOverflow solutions fit your questions. Some of those solutions are off the beaten path, especially given that FFmpeg has so many options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was able to convert video streams and cut the videos into pieces, as well as take screenshots of the videos. This allowed us to automate the processing of videos instead of preprocessing by hand. This saves up to an hour per video of processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

I love the sheer power of FFmpeg. It is amazing software which can help solve a multitude of video- and audio-related problems. If you are comfortable with the command line, it is a breeze to use. The available options are very smart, and errors are often handled gracefully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

This software is used via the command line, so non-engineers will face a steep learning curve in order to use the program. Even for advanced users, some of the available options are tough to learn, despite being very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

Learn the command line and you will enjoy FFmpeg. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my current job, I've use FFmpeg in a variety of ways. Primarily, we use it to break down videos into their constituent frames, modify and stitch them back together in a variety of ways. Moreover, it's great for quickly extracting out the audio from a video file. We also use it to modify audio / video files before piping them to some 3rd party services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FFmpeg?

The formats it can use and convert and all the video utilities that can be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FFmpeg?

All the options available can be a bit confusing,but it's also what makes it powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg:

A real video utilities swiss army knife. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you?

I needed a way to convert a not so popular format of video, did my research and after discovering ffmpeg and read some instructions i was able to rapidly convert the video to a mainstream format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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