FFmpeg - The Complete Guide

About this course

FFmpeg is often called the Swiss Army knife of video transcoding/streaming. It is one of the most popular multimedia frameworks out there, which is free, open-source, and cross-platform. FFmpeg is used by many popular and important applications and services, such as YouTube, iTunes, and VLC.For its support of a wide range of codecs and containers, FFmpeg is the most commonly used tool for transcoding/converting audio/video from one format to another. It has a huge collection of filters that can be combined to manipulate and transform media in many different ways.This course aims to be your comprehensive guide into the world of FFmpeg. The sections of this course are carefully planned to make it very easy to get started with FFmpeg in a short time. The lectures are organized with diagrams and hands-on examples, so that you can master the core concepts of FFmpeg in order to build complex media manipulation pipelines with efficiency.By the end of this course, you will have a clear understanding about how FFmpeg works and how to put FFmpeg commands together to perform media processing tasks like transcoding, streaming, and other workflows.PrerequisitesThere are no prerequisites for this course. No prior knowledge of video, transcoding, or FFmpeg is needed. All you need is a working terminal where you can practice the commands yourself.ObjectivesGet a good overview of FFmpeg and its applications.Set up FFmpeg on popular operating systems.Inspect any media with ffprobe to extract valuable information.Play audio/video with ffplay from the command line.Learn the basics of audio/video, codecs, and containers.Understand what happens during transcoding.Have a crystal clear understanding of FFmpeg architecture and internal pipeline.Construct complex filter gra