Manipulating, converting and editing audio and video | Linux Today

Manipulating, converting and editing audio and video

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 12, 2009

“The command line interface is very easy to use because the
program figures out all the default parameters intelligently.
Usually, the input file name with -i option and output file name is
all you have to specify. In this tutorial, we will see how to get
information about audio or video file, convert from one audio or
video format to another, capture audio or video from a device and
extracting audio or video from a multimedia file using ffmpeg.

“Supported Formats

“FFmpeg supports a number of formats like avi, wav, asf, mp3,
mov, mp4,ogg, vcd, wmv and a lot more. To see which formats it
supports, use -formats option”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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