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| FFMPEG(1) FFMPEG(1) | |
| NAME | |
| ffmpeg - ffmpeg media converter | |
| SYNOPSIS | |
| ffmpeg [global_options] {[input_file_options] -i input_url} ... | |
| {[output_file_options] output_url} ... | |
| DESCRIPTION | |
| ffmpeg is a universal media converter. It can read a wide variety of | |
| inputs - including live grabbing/recording devices - filter, and | |
| transcode them into a plethora of output formats. | |
| ffmpeg reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be | |
| regular files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), | |
| specified by the "-i" option, and writes to an arbitrary number of | |
| output "files", which are specified by a plain output url. Anything | |
| found on the command line which cannot be interpreted as an option is | |
| considered to be an output url. | |
| Each input or output url can, in principle, contain any number of | |
| streams of different types (video/audio/subtitle/attachment/data). The | |
| allowed number and/or types of streams may be limited by the container | |
| format. Selecting which streams from which inputs will go into which | |
| output is either done automatically or with the "-map" option (see the | |
| Stream selection chapter). | |
| To refer to input files in options, you must use their indices | |
| (0-based). E.g. the first input file is 0, the second is 1, etc. | |
| Similarly, streams within a file are referred to by their indices. E.g. | |
| "2:3" refers to the fourth stream in the third input file. Also see the | |
| Stream specifiers chapter. | |
| As a general rule, options are applied to the next specified file. | |
| Therefore, order is important, and you can have the same option on the | |
| command line multiple times. Each occurrence is then applied to the | |
| next input or output file. Exceptions from this rule are the global | |
| options (e.g. verbosity level), which should be specified first. | |
| Do not mix input and output files -- first specify all input files, | |
| then all output files. Also do not mix options which belong to | |
| different files. All options apply ONLY to the next input or output | |
| file and are reset between files. | |
| Some simple examples follow. | |
| o Convert an input media file to a different format, by re-encoding | |
| media streams: | |
| ffmpeg -i input.avi output.mp4 | |
| o Set the video bitrate of the output file to 64 kbit/s: | |
| ffmpeg -i input.avi -b:v 64k -bufsize 64k output.mp4 | |
| o Force the frame rate of the output file to 24 fps: | |
| ffmpeg -i input.avi -r 24 output.mp4 | |
| o Force the frame rate of the input file (valid for raw formats only) | |
| to 1 fps and the frame rate of the output file to 24 fps: | |
| ffmpeg -r 1 -i input.m2v -r 24 output.mp4 | |
| The format option may be needed for raw input files. | |
| DETAILED DESCRIPTION | |
| The transcoding process in ffmpeg for each output can be described by | |
| the following diagram: | |
| _______ ______________ | |
| | | | | | |
| | input | demuxer | encoded data | decoder | |
| | file | ---------> | packets | -----+ | |
| |_______| |______________| | | |
| v | |
| _________ | |
| | | | |
| | decoded | | |
| | frames | | |
| |_________| | |
| ________ ______________ | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | output | <-------- | encoded data | <----+ | |
| | file | muxer | packets | encoder | |
| |________| |______________| | |
| ffmpeg calls the libavformat library (containing demuxers) to read | |
| input files and get packets containing encoded data from them. When | |
| there are multiple input files, ffmpeg tries to keep them synchronized | |
| by tracking lowest timestamp on any active input stream. | |
| Encoded packets are then passed to the decoder (unless streamcopy is | |
| selected for the stream, see further for a description). The decoder | |
| produces uncompressed frames (raw video/PCM audio/...) which can be | |
| processed further by filtering (see next section). After filtering, the | |
| frames are passed to the encoder, which encodes them and outputs | |
| encoded packets. Finally, those are passed to the muxer, which writes | |
| the encoded packets to the output file. | |
| Filtering | |
| Before encoding, ffmpeg can process raw audio and video frames using | |
| filters from the libavfilter library. Several chained filters form a | |
| filter graph. ffmpeg distinguishes between two types of filtergraphs: | |
| simple and complex. | |
| Simple filtergraphs | |
| Simple filtergraphs are those that have exactly one input and output, | |
| both of the same type. In the above diagram they can be represented by | |
| simply inserting an additional step between decoding and encoding: | |
| _________ ______________ | |
| | | | | | |
| | decoded | | encoded data | | |
| | frames |\ _ | packets | | |
| |_________| \ /||______________| | |
| \ __________ / | |
| simple _\|| | / encoder | |
| filtergraph | filtered |/ | |
| | frames | | |
| |__________| | |
| Simple filtergraphs are configured with the per-stream -filter option | |
| (with -vf and -af aliases for video and audio respectively). A simple | |
| filtergraph for video can look for example like this: | |
| _______ _____________ _______ ________ | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | input | ---> | deinterlace | ---> | scale | ---> | output | | |
| |_______| |_____________| |_______| |________| | |
| Note that some filters change frame properties but not frame contents. | |
| E.g. the "fps" filter in the example above changes number of frames, | |
| but does not touch the frame contents. Another example is the "setpts" | |
| filter, which only sets timestamps and otherwise passes the frames | |
| unchanged. | |
| Complex filtergraphs | |
| Complex filtergraphs are those which cannot be described as simply a | |
| linear processing chain applied to one stream. This is the case, for | |
| example, when the graph has more than one input and/or output, or when | |
| output stream type is different from input. They can be represented | |
| with the following diagram: | |
| _________ | |
| | | | |
| | input 0 |\ __________ | |
| |_________| \ | | | |
| \ _________ /| output 0 | | |
| \ | | / |__________| | |
| _________ \| complex | / | |
| | | | |/ | |
| | input 1 |---->| filter |\ | |
| |_________| | | \ __________ | |
| /| graph | \ | | | |
| / | | \| output 1 | | |
| _________ / |_________| |__________| | |
| | | / | |
| | input 2 |/ | |
| |_________| | |
| Complex filtergraphs are configured with the -filter_complex option. | |
| Note that this option is global, since a complex filtergraph, by its | |
| nature, cannot be unambiguously associated with a single stream or | |
| file. | |
| The -lavfi option is equivalent to -filter_complex. | |
| A trivial example of a complex filtergraph is the "overlay" filter, | |
| which has two video inputs and one video output, containing one video | |
| overlaid on top of the other. Its audio counterpart is the "amix" | |
| filter. | |
| Stream copy | |
| Stream copy is a mode selected by supplying the "copy" parameter to the | |
| -codec option. It makes ffmpeg omit the decoding and encoding step for | |
| the specified stream, so it does only demuxing and muxing. It is useful | |
| for changing the container format or modifying container-level | |
| metadata. The diagram above will, in this case, simplify to this: | |
| _______ ______________ ________ | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | input | demuxer | encoded data | muxer | output | | |
| | file | ---------> | packets | -------> | file | | |
| |_______| |______________| |________| | |
| Since there is no decoding or encoding, it is very fast and there is no | |
| quality loss. However, it might not work in some cases because of many | |
| factors. Applying filters is obviously also impossible, since filters | |
| work on uncompressed data. | |
| Loopback decoders | |
| While decoders are normally associated with demuxer streams, it is also | |
| possible to create "loopback" decoders that decode the output from some | |
| encoder and allow it to be fed back to complex filtergraphs. This is | |
| done with the "-dec" directive, which takes as a parameter the index of | |
| the output stream that should be decoded. Every such directive creates | |
| a new loopback decoder, indexed with successive integers starting at | |
| zero. These indices should then be used to refer to loopback decoders | |
| in complex filtergraph link labels, as described in the documentation | |
| for -filter_complex. | |
| E.g. the following example: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT \ | |
| -map 0:v:0 -c:v libx264 -crf 45 -f null - \ | |
| -dec 0:0 -filter_complex '[0:v][dec:0]hstack[stack]' \ | |
| -map '[stack]' -c:v ffv1 OUTPUT | |
| reads an input video and | |
| o (line 2) encodes it with "libx264" at low quality; | |
| o (line 3) decodes this encoded stream and places it side by side | |
| with the original input video; | |
| o (line 4) combined video is then losslessly encoded and written into | |
| OUTPUT. | |
| STREAM SELECTION | |
| ffmpeg provides the "-map" option for manual control of stream | |
| selection in each output file. Users can skip "-map" and let ffmpeg | |
| perform automatic stream selection as described below. The "-vn / -an / | |
| -sn / -dn" options can be used to skip inclusion of video, audio, | |
| subtitle and data streams respectively, whether manually mapped or | |
| automatically selected, except for those streams which are outputs of | |
| complex filtergraphs. | |
| Description | |
| The sub-sections that follow describe the various rules that are | |
| involved in stream selection. The examples that follow next show how | |
| these rules are applied in practice. | |
| While every effort is made to accurately reflect the behavior of the | |
| program, FFmpeg is under continuous development and the code may have | |
| changed since the time of this writing. | |
| Automatic stream selection | |
| In the absence of any map options for a particular output file, ffmpeg | |
| inspects the output format to check which type of streams can be | |
| included in it, viz. video, audio and/or subtitles. For each acceptable | |
| stream type, ffmpeg will pick one stream, when available, from among | |
| all the inputs. | |
| It will select that stream based upon the following criteria: | |
| o for video, it is the stream with the highest resolution, | |
| o for audio, it is the stream with the most channels, | |
| o for subtitles, it is the first subtitle stream found but there's a | |
| caveat. The output format's default subtitle encoder can be either | |
| text-based or image-based, and only a subtitle stream of the same | |
| type will be chosen. | |
| In the case where several streams of the same type rate equally, the | |
| stream with the lowest index is chosen. | |
| Data or attachment streams are not automatically selected and can only | |
| be included using "-map". | |
| Manual stream selection | |
| When "-map" is used, only user-mapped streams are included in that | |
| output file, with one possible exception for filtergraph outputs | |
| described below. | |
| Complex filtergraphs | |
| If there are any complex filtergraph output streams with unlabeled | |
| pads, they will be added to the first output file. This will lead to a | |
| fatal error if the stream type is not supported by the output format. | |
| In the absence of the map option, the inclusion of these streams leads | |
| to the automatic stream selection of their types being skipped. If map | |
| options are present, these filtergraph streams are included in addition | |
| to the mapped streams. | |
| Complex filtergraph output streams with labeled pads must be mapped | |
| once and exactly once. | |
| Stream handling | |
| Stream handling is independent of stream selection, with an exception | |
| for subtitles described below. Stream handling is set via the "-codec" | |
| option addressed to streams within a specific output file. In | |
| particular, codec options are applied by ffmpeg after the stream | |
| selection process and thus do not influence the latter. If no "-codec" | |
| option is specified for a stream type, ffmpeg will select the default | |
| encoder registered by the output file muxer. | |
| An exception exists for subtitles. If a subtitle encoder is specified | |
| for an output file, the first subtitle stream found of any type, text | |
| or image, will be included. ffmpeg does not validate if the specified | |
| encoder can convert the selected stream or if the converted stream is | |
| acceptable within the output format. This applies generally as well: | |
| when the user sets an encoder manually, the stream selection process | |
| cannot check if the encoded stream can be muxed into the output file. | |
| If it cannot, ffmpeg will abort and all output files will fail to be | |
| processed. | |
| Examples | |
| The following examples illustrate the behavior, quirks and limitations | |
| of ffmpeg's stream selection methods. | |
| They assume the following three input files. | |
| input file 'A.avi' | |
| stream 0: video 640x360 | |
| stream 1: audio 2 channels | |
| input file 'B.mp4' | |
| stream 0: video 1920x1080 | |
| stream 1: audio 2 channels | |
| stream 2: subtitles (text) | |
| stream 3: audio 5.1 channels | |
| stream 4: subtitles (text) | |
| input file 'C.mkv' | |
| stream 0: video 1280x720 | |
| stream 1: audio 2 channels | |
| stream 2: subtitles (image) | |
| Example: automatic stream selection | |
| ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 out1.mkv out2.wav -map 1:a -c:a copy out3.mov | |
| There are three output files specified, and for the first two, no | |
| "-map" options are set, so ffmpeg will select streams for these two | |
| files automatically. | |
| out1.mkv is a Matroska container file and accepts video, audio and | |
| subtitle streams, so ffmpeg will try to select one of each type.For | |
| video, it will select "stream 0" from B.mp4, which has the highest | |
| resolution among all the input video streams.For audio, it will select | |
| "stream 3" from B.mp4, since it has the greatest number of channels.For | |
| subtitles, it will select "stream 2" from B.mp4, which is the first | |
| subtitle stream from among A.avi and B.mp4. | |
| out2.wav accepts only audio streams, so only "stream 3" from B.mp4 is | |
| selected. | |
| For out3.mov, since a "-map" option is set, no automatic stream | |
| selection will occur. The "-map 1:a" option will select all audio | |
| streams from the second input B.mp4. No other streams will be included | |
| in this output file. | |
| For the first two outputs, all included streams will be transcoded. The | |
| encoders chosen will be the default ones registered by each output | |
| format, which may not match the codec of the selected input streams. | |
| For the third output, codec option for audio streams has been set to | |
| "copy", so no decoding-filtering-encoding operations will occur, or can | |
| occur. Packets of selected streams shall be conveyed from the input | |
| file and muxed within the output file. | |
| Example: automatic subtitles selection | |
| ffmpeg -i C.mkv out1.mkv -c:s dvdsub -an out2.mkv | |
| Although out1.mkv is a Matroska container file which accepts subtitle | |
| streams, only a video and audio stream shall be selected. The subtitle | |
| stream of C.mkv is image-based and the default subtitle encoder of the | |
| Matroska muxer is text-based, so a transcode operation for the | |
| subtitles is expected to fail and hence the stream isn't selected. | |
| However, in out2.mkv, a subtitle encoder is specified in the command | |
| and so, the subtitle stream is selected, in addition to the video | |
| stream. The presence of "-an" disables audio stream selection for | |
| out2.mkv. | |
| Example: unlabeled filtergraph outputs | |
| ffmpeg -i A.avi -i C.mkv -i B.mp4 -filter_complex "overlay" out1.mp4 out2.srt | |
| A filtergraph is setup here using the "-filter_complex" option and | |
| consists of a single video filter. The "overlay" filter requires | |
| exactly two video inputs, but none are specified, so the first two | |
| available video streams are used, those of A.avi and C.mkv. The output | |
| pad of the filter has no label and so is sent to the first output file | |
| out1.mp4. Due to this, automatic selection of the video stream is | |
| skipped, which would have selected the stream in B.mp4. The audio | |
| stream with most channels viz. "stream 3" in B.mp4, is chosen | |
| automatically. No subtitle stream is chosen however, since the MP4 | |
| format has no default subtitle encoder registered, and the user hasn't | |
| specified a subtitle encoder. | |
| The 2nd output file, out2.srt, only accepts text-based subtitle | |
| streams. So, even though the first subtitle stream available belongs to | |
| C.mkv, it is image-based and hence skipped. The selected stream, | |
| "stream 2" in B.mp4, is the first text-based subtitle stream. | |
| Example: labeled filtergraph outputs | |
| ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 -i C.mkv -filter_complex "[1:v]hue=s=0[outv];overlay;aresample" \ | |
| -map '[outv]' -an out1.mp4 \ | |
| out2.mkv \ | |
| -map '[outv]' -map 1:a:0 out3.mkv | |
| The above command will fail, as the output pad labelled "[outv]" has | |
| been mapped twice. None of the output files shall be processed. | |
| ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 -i C.mkv -filter_complex "[1:v]hue=s=0[outv];overlay;aresample" \ | |
| -an out1.mp4 \ | |
| out2.mkv \ | |
| -map 1:a:0 out3.mkv | |
| This command above will also fail as the hue filter output has a label, | |
| "[outv]", and hasn't been mapped anywhere. | |
| The command should be modified as follows, | |
| ffmpeg -i A.avi -i B.mp4 -i C.mkv -filter_complex "[1:v]hue=s=0,split=2[outv1][outv2];overlay;aresample" \ | |
| -map '[outv1]' -an out1.mp4 \ | |
| out2.mkv \ | |
| -map '[outv2]' -map 1:a:0 out3.mkv | |
| The video stream from B.mp4 is sent to the hue filter, whose output is | |
| cloned once using the split filter, and both outputs labelled. Then a | |
| copy each is mapped to the first and third output files. | |
| The overlay filter, requiring two video inputs, uses the first two | |
| unused video streams. Those are the streams from A.avi and C.mkv. The | |
| overlay output isn't labelled, so it is sent to the first output file | |
| out1.mp4, regardless of the presence of the "-map" option. | |
| The aresample filter is sent the first unused audio stream, that of | |
| A.avi. Since this filter output is also unlabelled, it too is mapped to | |
| the first output file. The presence of "-an" only suppresses automatic | |
| or manual stream selection of audio streams, not outputs sent from | |
| filtergraphs. Both these mapped streams shall be ordered before the | |
| mapped stream in out1.mp4. | |
| The video, audio and subtitle streams mapped to "out2.mkv" are entirely | |
| determined by automatic stream selection. | |
| out3.mkv consists of the cloned video output from the hue filter and | |
| the first audio stream from B.mp4. | |
| OPTIONS | |
| All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept a string | |
| representing a number as input, which may be followed by one of the SI | |
| unit prefixes, for example: 'K', 'M', or 'G'. | |
| If 'i' is appended to the SI unit prefix, the complete prefix will be | |
| interpreted as a unit prefix for binary multiples, which are based on | |
| powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. Appending 'B' to the SI unit | |
| prefix multiplies the value by 8. This allows using, for example: 'KB', | |
| 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as number suffixes. | |
| Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the | |
| corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing the | |
| option name with "no". For example using "-nofoo" will set the boolean | |
| option with name "foo" to false. | |
| Options that take arguments support a special syntax where the argument | |
| given on the command line is interpreted as a path to the file from | |
| which the actual argument value is loaded. To use this feature, add a | |
| forward slash '/' immediately before the option name (after the leading | |
| dash). E.g. | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -/filter:v filter.script OUTPUT | |
| will load a filtergraph description from the file named filter.script. | |
| Stream specifiers | |
| Some options are applied per-stream, e.g. bitrate or codec. Stream | |
| specifiers are used to precisely specify which stream(s) a given option | |
| belongs to. | |
| A stream specifier is a string generally appended to the option name | |
| and separated from it by a colon. E.g. "-codec:a:1 ac3" contains the | |
| "a:1" stream specifier, which matches the second audio stream. | |
| Therefore, it would select the ac3 codec for the second audio stream. | |
| A stream specifier can match several streams, so that the option is | |
| applied to all of them. E.g. the stream specifier in "-b:a 128k" | |
| matches all audio streams. | |
| An empty stream specifier matches all streams. For example, "-codec | |
| copy" or "-codec: copy" would copy all the streams without reencoding. | |
| Possible forms of stream specifiers are: | |
| stream_index | |
| Matches the stream with this index. E.g. "-threads:1 4" would set | |
| the thread count for the second stream to 4. If stream_index is | |
| used as an additional stream specifier (see below), then it selects | |
| stream number stream_index from the matching streams. Stream | |
| numbering is based on the order of the streams as detected by | |
| libavformat except when a stream group specifier or program ID is | |
| also specified. In this case it is based on the ordering of the | |
| streams in the group or program. | |
| stream_type[:additional_stream_specifier] | |
| stream_type is one of following: 'v' or 'V' for video, 'a' for | |
| audio, 's' for subtitle, 'd' for data, and 't' for attachments. 'v' | |
| matches all video streams, 'V' only matches video streams which are | |
| not attached pictures, video thumbnails or cover arts. If | |
| additional_stream_specifier is used, then it matches streams which | |
| both have this type and match the additional_stream_specifier. | |
| Otherwise, it matches all streams of the specified type. | |
| g:group_specifier[:additional_stream_specifier] | |
| Matches streams which are in the group with the specifier | |
| group_specifier. if additional_stream_specifier is used, then it | |
| matches streams which both are part of the group and match the | |
| additional_stream_specifier. group_specifier may be one of the | |
| following: | |
| group_index | |
| Match the stream with this group index. | |
| #group_id or i:group_id | |
| Match the stream with this group id. | |
| p:program_id[:additional_stream_specifier] | |
| Matches streams which are in the program with the id program_id. If | |
| additional_stream_specifier is used, then it matches streams which | |
| both are part of the program and match the | |
| additional_stream_specifier. | |
| #stream_id or i:stream_id | |
| Match the stream by stream id (e.g. PID in MPEG-TS container). | |
| m:key[:value] | |
| Matches streams with the metadata tag key having the specified | |
| value. If value is not given, matches streams that contain the | |
| given tag with any value. | |
| u Matches streams with usable configuration, the codec must be | |
| defined and the essential information such as video dimension or | |
| audio sample rate must be present. | |
| Note that in ffmpeg, matching by metadata will only work properly | |
| for input files. | |
| Generic options | |
| These options are shared amongst the ff* tools. | |
| -L Show license. | |
| -h, -?, -help, --help [arg] | |
| Show help. An optional parameter may be specified to print help | |
| about a specific item. If no argument is specified, only basic (non | |
| advanced) tool options are shown. | |
| Possible values of arg are: | |
| long | |
| Print advanced tool options in addition to the basic tool | |
| options. | |
| full | |
| Print complete list of options, including shared and private | |
| options for encoders, decoders, demuxers, muxers, filters, etc. | |
| decoder=decoder_name | |
| Print detailed information about the decoder named | |
| decoder_name. Use the -decoders option to get a list of all | |
| decoders. | |
| encoder=encoder_name | |
| Print detailed information about the encoder named | |
| encoder_name. Use the -encoders option to get a list of all | |
| encoders. | |
| demuxer=demuxer_name | |
| Print detailed information about the demuxer named | |
| demuxer_name. Use the -formats option to get a list of all | |
| demuxers and muxers. | |
| muxer=muxer_name | |
| Print detailed information about the muxer named muxer_name. | |
| Use the -formats option to get a list of all muxers and | |
| demuxers. | |
| filter=filter_name | |
| Print detailed information about the filter named filter_name. | |
| Use the -filters option to get a list of all filters. | |
| bsf=bitstream_filter_name | |
| Print detailed information about the bitstream filter named | |
| bitstream_filter_name. Use the -bsfs option to get a list of | |
| all bitstream filters. | |
| protocol=protocol_name | |
| Print detailed information about the protocol named | |
| protocol_name. Use the -protocols option to get a list of all | |
| protocols. | |
| -version | |
| Show version. | |
| -buildconf | |
| Show the build configuration, one option per line. | |
| -formats | |
| Show available formats (including devices). | |
| -demuxers | |
| Show available demuxers. | |
| -muxers | |
| Show available muxers. | |
| -devices | |
| Show available devices. | |
| -codecs | |
| Show all codecs known to libavcodec. | |
| Note that the term 'codec' is used throughout this documentation as | |
| a shortcut for what is more correctly called a media bitstream | |
| format. | |
| -decoders | |
| Show available decoders. | |
| -encoders | |
| Show all available encoders. | |
| -bsfs | |
| Show available bitstream filters. | |
| -protocols | |
| Show available protocols. | |
| -filters | |
| Show available libavfilter filters. | |
| -pix_fmts | |
| Show available pixel formats. | |
| -sample_fmts | |
| Show available sample formats. | |
| -layouts | |
| Show channel names and standard channel layouts. | |
| -dispositions | |
| Show stream dispositions. | |
| -colors | |
| Show recognized color names. | |
| -sources device[,opt1=val1[,opt2=val2]...] | |
| Show autodetected sources of the input device. Some devices may | |
| provide system-dependent source names that cannot be autodetected. | |
| The returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete. | |
| ffmpeg -sources pulse,server=192.168.0.4 | |
| -sinks device[,opt1=val1[,opt2=val2]...] | |
| Show autodetected sinks of the output device. Some devices may | |
| provide system-dependent sink names that cannot be autodetected. | |
| The returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete. | |
| ffmpeg -sinks pulse,server=192.168.0.4 | |
| -loglevel [flags+]loglevel | -v [flags+]loglevel | |
| Set logging level and flags used by the library. | |
| The optional flags prefix can consist of the following values: | |
| repeat | |
| Indicates that repeated log output should not be compressed to | |
| the first line and the "Last message repeated n times" line | |
| will be omitted. | |
| level | |
| Indicates that log output should add a "[level]" prefix to each | |
| message line. This can be used as an alternative to log | |
| coloring, e.g. when dumping the log to file. | |
| Flags can also be used alone by adding a '+'/'-' prefix to | |
| set/reset a single flag without affecting other flags or changing | |
| loglevel. When setting both flags and loglevel, a '+' separator is | |
| expected between the last flags value and before loglevel. | |
| loglevel is a string or a number containing one of the following | |
| values: | |
| quiet, -8 | |
| Show nothing at all; be silent. | |
| panic, 0 | |
| Only show fatal errors which could lead the process to crash, | |
| such as an assertion failure. This is not currently used for | |
| anything. | |
| fatal, 8 | |
| Only show fatal errors. These are errors after which the | |
| process absolutely cannot continue. | |
| error, 16 | |
| Show all errors, including ones which can be recovered from. | |
| warning, 24 | |
| Show all warnings and errors. Any message related to possibly | |
| incorrect or unexpected events will be shown. | |
| info, 32 | |
| Show informative messages during processing. This is in | |
| addition to warnings and errors. This is the default value. | |
| verbose, 40 | |
| Same as "info", except more verbose. | |
| debug, 48 | |
| Show everything, including debugging information. | |
| trace, 56 | |
| For example to enable repeated log output, add the "level" prefix, | |
| and set loglevel to "verbose": | |
| ffmpeg -loglevel repeat+level+verbose -i input output | |
| Another example that enables repeated log output without affecting | |
| current state of "level" prefix flag or loglevel: | |
| ffmpeg [...] -loglevel +repeat | |
| By default the program logs to stderr. If coloring is supported by | |
| the terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log | |
| coloring can be disabled setting the environment variable | |
| AV_LOG_FORCE_NOCOLOR, or can be forced setting the environment | |
| variable AV_LOG_FORCE_COLOR. | |
| -report | |
| Dump full command line and log output to a file named | |
| "program-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.log" in the current directory. This file | |
| can be useful for bug reports. It also implies "-loglevel debug". | |
| Setting the environment variable FFREPORT to any value has the same | |
| effect. If the value is a ':'-separated key=value sequence, these | |
| options will affect the report; option values must be escaped if | |
| they contain special characters or the options delimiter ':' (see | |
| the ``Quoting and escaping'' section in the ffmpeg-utils manual). | |
| The following options are recognized: | |
| file | |
| set the file name to use for the report; %p is expanded to the | |
| name of the program, %t is expanded to a timestamp, "%%" is | |
| expanded to a plain "%" | |
| level | |
| set the log verbosity level using a numerical value (see | |
| "-loglevel"). | |
| For example, to output a report to a file named ffreport.log using | |
| a log level of 32 (alias for log level "info"): | |
| FFREPORT=file=ffreport.log:level=32 ffmpeg -i input output | |
| Errors in parsing the environment variable are not fatal, and will | |
| not appear in the report. | |
| -hide_banner | |
| Suppress printing banner. | |
| All FFmpeg tools will normally show a copyright notice, build | |
| options and library versions. This option can be used to suppress | |
| printing this information. | |
| -cpuflags flags (global) | |
| Allows setting and clearing cpu flags. This option is intended for | |
| testing. Do not use it unless you know what you're doing. | |
| ffmpeg -cpuflags -sse+mmx ... | |
| ffmpeg -cpuflags mmx ... | |
| ffmpeg -cpuflags 0 ... | |
| Possible flags for this option are: | |
| x86 | |
| mmx | |
| mmxext | |
| sse | |
| sse2 | |
| sse2slow | |
| sse3 | |
| sse3slow | |
| ssse3 | |
| atom | |
| sse4.1 | |
| sse4.2 | |
| avx | |
| avx2 | |
| xop | |
| fma3 | |
| fma4 | |
| 3dnow | |
| 3dnowext | |
| bmi1 | |
| bmi2 | |
| cmov | |
| ARM | |
| armv5te | |
| armv6 | |
| armv6t2 | |
| vfp | |
| vfpv3 | |
| neon | |
| setend | |
| AArch64 | |
| armv8 | |
| vfp | |
| neon | |
| PowerPC | |
| altivec | |
| Specific Processors | |
| pentium2 | |
| pentium3 | |
| pentium4 | |
| k6 | |
| k62 | |
| athlon | |
| athlonxp | |
| k8 | |
| -cpucount count (global) | |
| Override detection of CPU count. This option is intended for | |
| testing. Do not use it unless you know what you're doing. | |
| ffmpeg -cpucount 2 | |
| -max_alloc bytes | |
| Set the maximum size limit for allocating a block on the heap by | |
| ffmpeg's family of malloc functions. Exercise extreme caution when | |
| using this option. Don't use if you do not understand the full | |
| consequence of doing so. Default is INT_MAX. | |
| AVOptions | |
| These options are provided directly by the libavformat, libavdevice and | |
| libavcodec libraries. To see the list of available AVOptions, use the | |
| -help option. They are separated into two categories: | |
| generic | |
| These options can be set for any container, codec or device. | |
| Generic options are listed under AVFormatContext options for | |
| containers/devices and under AVCodecContext options for codecs. | |
| private | |
| These options are specific to the given container, device or codec. | |
| Private options are listed under their corresponding | |
| containers/devices/codecs. | |
| For example to write an ID3v2.3 header instead of a default ID3v2.4 to | |
| an MP3 file, use the id3v2_version private option of the MP3 muxer: | |
| ffmpeg -i input.flac -id3v2_version 3 out.mp3 | |
| All codec AVOptions are per-stream, and thus a stream specifier should | |
| be attached to them: | |
| ffmpeg -i multichannel.mxf -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -map 0:a:0 -c:a:0 ac3 -b:a:0 640k -ac:a:1 2 -c:a:1 aac -b:2 128k out.mp4 | |
| In the above example, a multichannel audio stream is mapped twice for | |
| output. The first instance is encoded with codec ac3 and bitrate 640k. | |
| The second instance is downmixed to 2 channels and encoded with codec | |
| aac. A bitrate of 128k is specified for it using absolute index of the | |
| output stream. | |
| Note: the -nooption syntax cannot be used for boolean AVOptions, use | |
| -option 0/-option 1. | |
| Note: the old undocumented way of specifying per-stream AVOptions by | |
| prepending v/a/s to the options name is now obsolete and will be | |
| removed soon. | |
| Main options | |
| -f fmt (input/output) | |
| Force input or output file format. The format is normally auto | |
| detected for input files and guessed from the file extension for | |
| output files, so this option is not needed in most cases. | |
| -i url (input) | |
| input file url | |
| -y (global) | |
| Overwrite output files without asking. | |
| -n (global) | |
| Do not overwrite output files, and exit immediately if a specified | |
| output file already exists. | |
| -stream_loop number (input) | |
| Set number of times input stream shall be looped. Loop 0 means no | |
| loop, loop -1 means infinite loop. | |
| -recast_media (global) | |
| Allow forcing a decoder of a different media type than the one | |
| detected or designated by the demuxer. Useful for decoding media | |
| data muxed as data streams. | |
| -c[:stream_specifier] codec (input/output,per-stream) | |
| -codec[:stream_specifier] codec (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Select an encoder (when used before an output file) or a decoder | |
| (when used before an input file) for one or more streams. codec is | |
| the name of a decoder/encoder or a special value "copy" (output | |
| only) to indicate that the stream is not to be re-encoded. | |
| For example | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 -c:v libx264 -c:a copy OUTPUT | |
| encodes all video streams with libx264 and copies all audio | |
| streams. | |
| For each stream, the last matching "c" option is applied, so | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 -c copy -c:v:1 libx264 -c:a:137 libvorbis OUTPUT | |
| will copy all the streams except the second video, which will be | |
| encoded with libx264, and the 138th audio, which will be encoded | |
| with libvorbis. | |
| -t duration (input/output) | |
| When used as an input option (before "-i"), limit the duration of | |
| data read from the input file. | |
| When used as an output option (before an output url), stop writing | |
| the output after its duration reaches duration. | |
| duration must be a time duration specification, see the Time | |
| duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
| -to and -t are mutually exclusive and -t has priority. | |
| -to position (input/output) | |
| Stop writing the output or reading the input at position. position | |
| must be a time duration specification, see the Time duration | |
| section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
| -to and -t are mutually exclusive and -t has priority. | |
| -fs limit_size (output) | |
| Set the file size limit, expressed in bytes. No further chunk of | |
| bytes is written after the limit is exceeded. The size of the | |
| output file is slightly more than the requested file size. | |
| -ss position (input/output) | |
| When used as an input option (before "-i"), seeks in this input | |
| file to position. Note that in most formats it is not possible to | |
| seek exactly, so ffmpeg will seek to the closest seek point before | |
| position. When transcoding and -accurate_seek is enabled (the | |
| default), this extra segment between the seek point and position | |
| will be decoded and discarded. When doing stream copy or when | |
| -noaccurate_seek is used, it will be preserved. | |
| When used as an output option (before an output url), decodes but | |
| discards input until the timestamps reach position. | |
| position must be a time duration specification, see the Time | |
| duration section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
| -sseof position (input) | |
| Like the "-ss" option but relative to the "end of file". That is | |
| negative values are earlier in the file, 0 is at EOF. | |
| -isync input_index (input) | |
| Assign an input as a sync source. | |
| This will take the difference between the start times of the target | |
| and reference inputs and offset the timestamps of the target file | |
| by that difference. The source timestamps of the two inputs should | |
| derive from the same clock source for expected results. If "copyts" | |
| is set then "start_at_zero" must also be set. If either of the | |
| inputs has no starting timestamp then no sync adjustment is made. | |
| Acceptable values are those that refer to a valid ffmpeg input | |
| index. If the sync reference is the target index itself or -1, then | |
| no adjustment is made to target timestamps. A sync reference may | |
| not itself be synced to any other input. | |
| Default value is -1. | |
| -itsoffset offset (input) | |
| Set the input time offset. | |
| offset must be a time duration specification, see the Time duration | |
| section in the ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
| The offset is added to the timestamps of the input files. | |
| Specifying a positive offset means that the corresponding streams | |
| are delayed by the time duration specified in offset. | |
| -itsscale scale (input,per-stream) | |
| Rescale input timestamps. scale should be a floating point number. | |
| -timestamp date (output) | |
| Set the recording timestamp in the container. | |
| date must be a date specification, see the Date section in the | |
| ffmpeg-utils(1) manual. | |
| -metadata[:metadata_specifier] key=value (output,per-metadata) | |
| Set a metadata key/value pair. | |
| An optional metadata_specifier may be given to set metadata on | |
| streams, chapters or programs. See "-map_metadata" documentation | |
| for details. | |
| This option overrides metadata set with "-map_metadata". It is also | |
| possible to delete metadata by using an empty value. | |
| For example, for setting the title in the output file: | |
| ffmpeg -i in.avi -metadata title="my title" out.flv | |
| To set the language of the first audio stream: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng OUTPUT | |
| -disposition[:stream_specifier] value (output,per-stream) | |
| Sets the disposition for a stream. | |
| By default, the disposition is copied from the input stream, unless | |
| the output stream this option applies to is fed by a complex | |
| filtergraph - in that case the disposition is unset by default. | |
| value is a sequence of items separated by '+' or '-'. The first | |
| item may also be prefixed with '+' or '-', in which case this | |
| option modifies the default value. Otherwise (the first item is not | |
| prefixed) this options overrides the default value. A '+' prefix | |
| adds the given disposition, '-' removes it. It is also possible to | |
| clear the disposition by setting it to 0. | |
| If no "-disposition" options were specified for an output file, | |
| ffmpeg will automatically set the 'default' disposition on the | |
| first stream of each type, when there are multiple streams of this | |
| type in the output file and no stream of that type is already | |
| marked as default. | |
| The "-dispositions" option lists the known dispositions. | |
| For example, to make the second audio stream the default stream: | |
| ffmpeg -i in.mkv -c copy -disposition:a:1 default out.mkv | |
| To make the second subtitle stream the default stream and remove | |
| the default disposition from the first subtitle stream: | |
| ffmpeg -i in.mkv -c copy -disposition:s:0 0 -disposition:s:1 default out.mkv | |
| To add an embedded cover/thumbnail: | |
| ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -i IMAGE -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -c:v:1 png -disposition:v:1 attached_pic out.mp4 | |
| Not all muxers support embedded thumbnails, and those who do, only | |
| support a few formats, like JPEG or PNG. | |
| -program | |
| [title=title:][program_num=program_num:]st=stream[:st=stream...] | |
| (output) | |
| Creates a program with the specified title, program_num and adds | |
| the specified stream(s) to it. | |
| -stream_group | |
| type=type:st=stream[:st=stream][:stg=stream_group][:id=stream_group_id...] | |
| (output) | |
| Creates a stream group of the specified type, stream_group_id and | |
| adds the specified stream(s) and/or previously defined | |
| stream_group(s) to it. | |
| type can be one of the following: | |
| iamf_audio_element | |
| Groups streams that belong to the same IAMF Audio Element | |
| For this group type, the following options are available | |
| audio_element_type | |
| The Audio Element type. The following values are supported: | |
| channel | |
| Scalable channel audio representation | |
| scene | |
| Ambisonics representation | |
| demixing | |
| Demixing information used to reconstruct a scalable channel | |
| audio representation. This option must be separated from | |
| the rest with a ',', and takes the following key=value | |
| options | |
| parameter_id | |
| An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer to | |
| dmixp_mode | |
| A pre-defined combination of demixing parameters | |
| recon_gain | |
| Recon gain information used to reconstruct a scalable | |
| channel audio representation. This option must be | |
| separated from the rest with a ',', and takes the following | |
| key=value options | |
| parameter_id | |
| An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer to | |
| layer | |
| A layer defining a Channel Layout in the Audio Element. | |
| This option must be separated from the rest with a ','. | |
| Several ',' separated entries can be defined, and at least | |
| one must be set. | |
| It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options | |
| ch_layout | |
| The layer's channel layout | |
| flags | |
| The following flags are available: | |
| recon_gain | |
| Wether to signal if recon_gain is present as | |
| metadata in parameter blocks within frames | |
| output_gain | |
| output_gain_flags | |
| Which channels output_gain applies to. The following | |
| flags are available: | |
| FL | |
| FR | |
| BL | |
| BR | |
| TFL | |
| TFR | |
| ambisonics_mode | |
| The ambisonics mode. This has no effect if | |
| audio_element_type is set to channel. | |
| The following values are supported: | |
| mono | |
| Each ambisonics channel is coded as an individual | |
| mono stream in the group | |
| default_w | |
| Default weight value | |
| iamf_mix_presentation | |
| Groups streams that belong to all IAMF Audio Element the same | |
| IAMF Mix Presentation references | |
| For this group type, the following options are available | |
| submix | |
| A sub-mix within the Mix Presentation. This option must be | |
| separated from the rest with a ','. Several ',' separated | |
| entries can be defined, and at least one must be set. | |
| It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options | |
| parameter_id | |
| An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer to, | |
| for post-processing the mixed audio signal to generate | |
| the audio signal for playback | |
| parameter_rate | |
| The sample rate duration fields in parameters blocks in | |
| frames that refer to this parameter_id are expressed as | |
| default_mix_gain | |
| Default mix gain value to apply when there are no | |
| parameter blocks sharing the same parameter_id for a | |
| given frame | |
| element | |
| References an Audio Element used in this Mix | |
| Presentation to generate the final output audio signal | |
| for playback. This option must be separated from the | |
| rest with a '|'. Several '|' separated entries can be | |
| defined, and at least one must be set. | |
| It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options: | |
| stg The stream_group_id for an Audio Element which this | |
| sub-mix refers to | |
| parameter_id | |
| An identifier parameters blocks in frames may refer | |
| to, for applying any processing to the referenced | |
| and rendered Audio Element before being summed with | |
| other processed Audio Elements | |
| parameter_rate | |
| The sample rate duration fields in parameters | |
| blocks in frames that refer to this parameter_id | |
| are expressed as | |
| default_mix_gain | |
| Default mix gain value to apply when there are no | |
| parameter blocks sharing the same parameter_id for | |
| a given frame | |
| annotations | |
| A key=value string describing the sub-mix element | |
| where "key" is a string conforming to BCP-47 that | |
| specifies the language for the "value" string. | |
| "key" must be the same as the one in the mix's | |
| annotations | |
| headphones_rendering_mode | |
| Indicates whether the input channel-based Audio | |
| Element is rendered to stereo loudspeakers or | |
| spatialized with a binaural renderer when played | |
| back on headphones. This has no effect if the | |
| referenced Audio Element's audio_element_type is | |
| set to channel. | |
| The following values are supported: | |
| stereo | |
| binaural | |
| layout | |
| Specifies the layouts for this sub-mix on which the | |
| loudness information was measured. This option must be | |
| separated from the rest with a '|'. Several '|' | |
| separated entries can be defined, and at least one must | |
| be set. | |
| It takes the following ":"-separated key=value options: | |
| layout_type | |
| loudspeakers | |
| The layout follows the loudspeaker sound system | |
| convention of ITU-2051-3. | |
| binaural | |
| The layout is binaural. | |
| sound_system | |
| Channel layout matching one of Sound Systems A to J | |
| of ITU-2051-3, plus 7.1.2 and 3.1.2 This has no | |
| effect if layout_type is set to binaural. | |
| integrated_loudness | |
| The program integrated loudness information, as | |
| defined in ITU-1770-4. | |
| digital_peak | |
| The digital (sampled) peak value of the audio | |
| signal, as defined in ITU-1770-4. | |
| true_peak | |
| The true peak of the audio signal, as defined in | |
| ITU-1770-4. | |
| dialog_anchored_loudness | |
| The Dialogue loudness information, as defined in | |
| ITU-1770-4. | |
| album_anchored_loudness | |
| The Album loudness information, as defined in | |
| ITU-1770-4. | |
| annotations | |
| A key=value string string describing the mix where "key" is | |
| a string conforming to BCP-47 that specifies the language | |
| for the "value" string. "key" must be the same as the ones | |
| in all sub-mix element's annotationss | |
| -target type (output) | |
| Specify target file type ("vcd", "svcd", "dvd", "dv", "dv50"). type | |
| may be prefixed with "pal-", "ntsc-" or "film-" to use the | |
| corresponding standard. All the format options (bitrate, codecs, | |
| buffer sizes) are then set automatically. You can just type: | |
| ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd /tmp/vcd.mpg | |
| Nevertheless you can specify additional options as long as you know | |
| they do not conflict with the standard, as in: | |
| ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd -bf 2 /tmp/vcd.mpg | |
| The parameters set for each target are as follows. | |
| VCD | |
| <pal>: | |
| -f vcd -muxrate 1411200 -muxpreload 0.44 -packetsize 2324 | |
| -s 352x288 -r 25 | |
| -codec:v mpeg1video -g 15 -b:v 1150k -maxrate:v 1150k -minrate:v 1150k -bufsize:v 327680 | |
| -ar 44100 -ac 2 | |
| -codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
| <ntsc>: | |
| -f vcd -muxrate 1411200 -muxpreload 0.44 -packetsize 2324 | |
| -s 352x240 -r 30000/1001 | |
| -codec:v mpeg1video -g 18 -b:v 1150k -maxrate:v 1150k -minrate:v 1150k -bufsize:v 327680 | |
| -ar 44100 -ac 2 | |
| -codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
| <film>: | |
| -f vcd -muxrate 1411200 -muxpreload 0.44 -packetsize 2324 | |
| -s 352x240 -r 24000/1001 | |
| -codec:v mpeg1video -g 18 -b:v 1150k -maxrate:v 1150k -minrate:v 1150k -bufsize:v 327680 | |
| -ar 44100 -ac 2 | |
| -codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
| SVCD | |
| <pal>: | |
| -f svcd -packetsize 2324 | |
| -s 480x576 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 | |
| -codec:v mpeg2video -g 15 -b:v 2040k -maxrate:v 2516k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 -scan_offset 1 | |
| -ar 44100 | |
| -codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
| <ntsc>: | |
| -f svcd -packetsize 2324 | |
| -s 480x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 30000/1001 | |
| -codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 2040k -maxrate:v 2516k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 -scan_offset 1 | |
| -ar 44100 | |
| -codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
| <film>: | |
| -f svcd -packetsize 2324 | |
| -s 480x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 24000/1001 | |
| -codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 2040k -maxrate:v 2516k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 -scan_offset 1 | |
| -ar 44100 | |
| -codec:a mp2 -b:a 224k | |
| DVD | |
| <pal>: | |
| -f dvd -muxrate 10080k -packetsize 2048 | |
| -s 720x576 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 | |
| -codec:v mpeg2video -g 15 -b:v 6000k -maxrate:v 9000k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 | |
| -ar 48000 | |
| -codec:a ac3 -b:a 448k | |
| <ntsc>: | |
| -f dvd -muxrate 10080k -packetsize 2048 | |
| -s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 30000/1001 | |
| -codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 6000k -maxrate:v 9000k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 | |
| -ar 48000 | |
| -codec:a ac3 -b:a 448k | |
| <film>: | |
| -f dvd -muxrate 10080k -packetsize 2048 | |
| -s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 24000/1001 | |
| -codec:v mpeg2video -g 18 -b:v 6000k -maxrate:v 9000k -minrate:v 0 -bufsize:v 1835008 | |
| -ar 48000 | |
| -codec:a ac3 -b:a 448k | |
| DV | |
| <pal>: | |
| -f dv | |
| -s 720x576 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 | |
| -ar 48000 -ac 2 | |
| <ntsc>: | |
| -f dv | |
| -s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv411p -r 30000/1001 | |
| -ar 48000 -ac 2 | |
| <film>: | |
| -f dv | |
| -s 720x480 -pix_fmt yuv411p -r 24000/1001 | |
| -ar 48000 -ac 2 | |
| The "dv50" target is identical to the "dv" target except that the | |
| pixel format set is "yuv422p" for all three standards. | |
| Any user-set value for a parameter above will override the target | |
| preset value. In that case, the output may not comply with the | |
| target standard. | |
| -dn (input/output) | |
| As an input option, blocks all data streams of a file from being | |
| filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any output. | |
| See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
| As an output option, disables data recording i.e. automatic | |
| selection or mapping of any data stream. For full manual control | |
| see the "-map" option. | |
| -dframes number (output) | |
| Set the number of data frames to output. This is an obsolete alias | |
| for "-frames:d", which you should use instead. | |
| -frames[:stream_specifier] framecount (output,per-stream) | |
| Stop writing to the stream after framecount frames. | |
| -q[:stream_specifier] q (output,per-stream) | |
| -qscale[:stream_specifier] q (output,per-stream) | |
| Use fixed quality scale (VBR). The meaning of q/qscale is codec- | |
| dependent. If qscale is used without a stream_specifier then it | |
| applies only to the video stream, this is to maintain compatibility | |
| with previous behavior and as specifying the same codec specific | |
| value to 2 different codecs that is audio and video generally is | |
| not what is intended when no stream_specifier is used. | |
| -filter[:stream_specifier] filtergraph (output,per-stream) | |
| Create the filtergraph specified by filtergraph and use it to | |
| filter the stream. | |
| filtergraph is a description of the filtergraph to apply to the | |
| stream, and must have a single input and a single output of the | |
| same type of the stream. In the filtergraph, the input is | |
| associated to the label "in", and the output to the label "out". | |
| See the ffmpeg-filters manual for more information about the | |
| filtergraph syntax. | |
| See the -filter_complex option if you want to create filtergraphs | |
| with multiple inputs and/or outputs. | |
| -reinit_filter[:stream_specifier] integer (input,per-stream) | |
| This boolean option determines if the filtergraph(s) to which this | |
| stream is fed gets reinitialized when input frame parameters change | |
| mid-stream. This option is enabled by default as most video and all | |
| audio filters cannot handle deviation in input frame properties. | |
| Upon reinitialization, existing filter state is lost, like e.g. the | |
| frame count "n" reference available in some filters. Any frames | |
| buffered at time of reinitialization are lost. The properties | |
| where a change triggers reinitialization are, for video, frame | |
| resolution or pixel format; for audio, sample format, sample rate, | |
| channel count or channel layout. | |
| -filter_threads nb_threads (global) | |
| Defines how many threads are used to process a filter pipeline. | |
| Each pipeline will produce a thread pool with this many threads | |
| available for parallel processing. The default is the number of | |
| available CPUs. | |
| -pre[:stream_specifier] preset_name (output,per-stream) | |
| Specify the preset for matching stream(s). | |
| -stats (global) | |
| Print encoding progress/statistics. It is on by default, to | |
| explicitly disable it you need to specify "-nostats". | |
| -stats_period time (global) | |
| Set period at which encoding progress/statistics are updated. | |
| Default is 0.5 seconds. | |
| -progress url (global) | |
| Send program-friendly progress information to url. | |
| Progress information is written periodically and at the end of the | |
| encoding process. It is made of "key=value" lines. key consists of | |
| only alphanumeric characters. The last key of a sequence of | |
| progress information is always "progress". | |
| The update period is set using "-stats_period". | |
| -stdin | |
| Enable interaction on standard input. On by default unless standard | |
| input is used as an input. To explicitly disable interaction you | |
| need to specify "-nostdin". | |
| Disabling interaction on standard input is useful, for example, if | |
| ffmpeg is in the background process group. Roughly the same result | |
| can be achieved with "ffmpeg ... < /dev/null" but it requires a | |
| shell. | |
| -debug_ts (global) | |
| Print timestamp/latency information. It is off by default. This | |
| option is mostly useful for testing and debugging purposes, and the | |
| output format may change from one version to another, so it should | |
| not be employed by portable scripts. | |
| See also the option "-fdebug ts". | |
| -attach filename (output) | |
| Add an attachment to the output file. This is supported by a few | |
| formats like Matroska for e.g. fonts used in rendering subtitles. | |
| Attachments are implemented as a specific type of stream, so this | |
| option will add a new stream to the file. It is then possible to | |
| use per-stream options on this stream in the usual way. Attachment | |
| streams created with this option will be created after all the | |
| other streams (i.e. those created with "-map" or automatic | |
| mappings). | |
| Note that for Matroska you also have to set the mimetype metadata | |
| tag: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -attach DejaVuSans.ttf -metadata:s:2 mimetype=application/x-truetype-font out.mkv | |
| (assuming that the attachment stream will be third in the output | |
| file). | |
| -dump_attachment[:stream_specifier] filename (input,per-stream) | |
| Extract the matching attachment stream into a file named filename. | |
| If filename is empty, then the value of the "filename" metadata tag | |
| will be used. | |
| E.g. to extract the first attachment to a file named 'out.ttf': | |
| ffmpeg -dump_attachment:t:0 out.ttf -i INPUT | |
| To extract all attachments to files determined by the "filename" | |
| tag: | |
| ffmpeg -dump_attachment:t "" -i INPUT | |
| Technical note -- attachments are implemented as codec extradata, | |
| so this option can actually be used to extract extradata from any | |
| stream, not just attachments. | |
| Video Options | |
| -vframes number (output) | |
| Set the number of video frames to output. This is an obsolete alias | |
| for "-frames:v", which you should use instead. | |
| -r[:stream_specifier] fps (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Set frame rate (Hz value, fraction or abbreviation). | |
| As an input option, ignore any timestamps stored in the file and | |
| instead generate timestamps assuming constant frame rate fps. This | |
| is not the same as the -framerate option used for some input | |
| formats like image2 or v4l2 (it used to be the same in older | |
| versions of FFmpeg). If in doubt use -framerate instead of the | |
| input option -r. | |
| As an output option: | |
| video encoding | |
| Duplicate or drop frames right before encoding them to achieve | |
| constant output frame rate fps. | |
| video streamcopy | |
| Indicate to the muxer that fps is the stream frame rate. No | |
| data is dropped or duplicated in this case. This may produce | |
| invalid files if fps does not match the actual stream frame | |
| rate as determined by packet timestamps. See also the "setts" | |
| bitstream filter. | |
| -fpsmax[:stream_specifier] fps (output,per-stream) | |
| Set maximum frame rate (Hz value, fraction or abbreviation). | |
| Clamps output frame rate when output framerate is auto-set and is | |
| higher than this value. Useful in batch processing or when input | |
| framerate is wrongly detected as very high. It cannot be set | |
| together with "-r". It is ignored during streamcopy. | |
| -s[:stream_specifier] size (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Set frame size. | |
| As an input option, this is a shortcut for the video_size private | |
| option, recognized by some demuxers for which the frame size is | |
| either not stored in the file or is configurable -- e.g. raw video | |
| or video grabbers. | |
| As an output option, this inserts the "scale" video filter to the | |
| end of the corresponding filtergraph. Please use the "scale" filter | |
| directly to insert it at the beginning or some other place. | |
| The format is wxh (default - same as source). | |
| -aspect[:stream_specifier] aspect (output,per-stream) | |
| Set the video display aspect ratio specified by aspect. | |
| aspect can be a floating point number string, or a string of the | |
| form num:den, where num and den are the numerator and denominator | |
| of the aspect ratio. For example "4:3", "16:9", "1.3333", and | |
| "1.7777" are valid argument values. | |
| If used together with -vcodec copy, it will affect the aspect ratio | |
| stored at container level, but not the aspect ratio stored in | |
| encoded frames, if it exists. | |
| -display_rotation[:stream_specifier] rotation (input,per-stream) | |
| Set video rotation metadata. | |
| rotation is a decimal number specifying the amount in degree by | |
| which the video should be rotated counter-clockwise before being | |
| displayed. | |
| This option overrides the rotation/display transform metadata | |
| stored in the file, if any. When the video is being transcoded | |
| (rather than copied) and "-autorotate" is enabled, the video will | |
| be rotated at the filtering stage. Otherwise, the metadata will be | |
| written into the output file if the muxer supports it. | |
| If the "-display_hflip" and/or "-display_vflip" options are given, | |
| they are applied after the rotation specified by this option. | |
| -display_hflip[:stream_specifier] (input,per-stream) | |
| Set whether on display the image should be horizontally flipped. | |
| See the "-display_rotation" option for more details. | |
| -display_vflip[:stream_specifier] (input,per-stream) | |
| Set whether on display the image should be vertically flipped. | |
| See the "-display_rotation" option for more details. | |
| -vn (input/output) | |
| As an input option, blocks all video streams of a file from being | |
| filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any output. | |
| See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
| As an output option, disables video recording i.e. automatic | |
| selection or mapping of any video stream. For full manual control | |
| see the "-map" option. | |
| -vcodec codec (output) | |
| Set the video codec. This is an alias for "-codec:v". | |
| -pass[:stream_specifier] n (output,per-stream) | |
| Select the pass number (1 or 2). It is used to do two-pass video | |
| encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first | |
| pass into a log file (see also the option -passlogfile), and in the | |
| second pass that log file is used to generate the video at the | |
| exact requested bitrate. On pass 1, you may just deactivate audio | |
| and set output to null, examples for Windows and Unix: | |
| ffmpeg -i foo.mov -c:v libxvid -pass 1 -an -f rawvideo -y NUL | |
| ffmpeg -i foo.mov -c:v libxvid -pass 1 -an -f rawvideo -y /dev/null | |
| -passlogfile[:stream_specifier] prefix (output,per-stream) | |
| Set two-pass log file name prefix to prefix, the default file name | |
| prefix is ``ffmpeg2pass''. The complete file name will be | |
| PREFIX-N.log, where N is a number specific to the output stream | |
| -vf filtergraph (output) | |
| Create the filtergraph specified by filtergraph and use it to | |
| filter the stream. | |
| This is an alias for "-filter:v", see the -filter option. | |
| -autorotate | |
| Automatically rotate the video according to file metadata. Enabled | |
| by default, use -noautorotate to disable it. | |
| -autoscale | |
| Automatically scale the video according to the resolution of first | |
| frame. Enabled by default, use -noautoscale to disable it. When | |
| autoscale is disabled, all output frames of filter graph might not | |
| be in the same resolution and may be inadequate for some | |
| encoder/muxer. Therefore, it is not recommended to disable it | |
| unless you really know what you are doing. Disable autoscale at | |
| your own risk. | |
| Advanced Video options | |
| -pix_fmt[:stream_specifier] format (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Set pixel format. Use "-pix_fmts" to show all the supported pixel | |
| formats. If the selected pixel format can not be selected, ffmpeg | |
| will print a warning and select the best pixel format supported by | |
| the encoder. If pix_fmt is prefixed by a "+", ffmpeg will exit | |
| with an error if the requested pixel format can not be selected, | |
| and automatic conversions inside filtergraphs are disabled. If | |
| pix_fmt is a single "+", ffmpeg selects the same pixel format as | |
| the input (or graph output) and automatic conversions are disabled. | |
| -sws_flags flags (input/output) | |
| Set default flags for the libswscale library. These flags are used | |
| by automatically inserted "scale" filters and those within simple | |
| filtergraphs, if not overridden within the filtergraph definition. | |
| See the ffmpeg-scaler manual for a list of scaler options. | |
| -rc_override[:stream_specifier] override (output,per-stream) | |
| Rate control override for specific intervals, formatted as | |
| "int,int,int" list separated with slashes. Two first values are the | |
| beginning and end frame numbers, last one is quantizer to use if | |
| positive, or quality factor if negative. | |
| -vstats | |
| Dump video coding statistics to vstats_HHMMSS.log. See the vstats | |
| file format section for the format description. | |
| -vstats_file file | |
| Dump video coding statistics to file. See the vstats file format | |
| section for the format description. | |
| -vstats_version file | |
| Specify which version of the vstats format to use. Default is 2. | |
| See the vstats file format section for the format description. | |
| -vtag fourcc/tag (output) | |
| Force video tag/fourcc. This is an alias for "-tag:v". | |
| -force_key_frames[:stream_specifier] time[,time...] (output,per-stream) | |
| -force_key_frames[:stream_specifier] expr:expr (output,per-stream) | |
| -force_key_frames[:stream_specifier] source (output,per-stream) | |
| force_key_frames can take arguments of the following form: | |
| time[,time...] | |
| If the argument consists of timestamps, ffmpeg will round the | |
| specified times to the nearest output timestamp as per the | |
| encoder time base and force a keyframe at the first frame | |
| having timestamp equal or greater than the computed timestamp. | |
| Note that if the encoder time base is too coarse, then the | |
| keyframes may be forced on frames with timestamps lower than | |
| the specified time. The default encoder time base is the | |
| inverse of the output framerate but may be set otherwise via | |
| "-enc_time_base". | |
| If one of the times is ""chapters"[delta]", it is expanded into | |
| the time of the beginning of all chapters in the file, shifted | |
| by delta, expressed as a time in seconds. This option can be | |
| useful to ensure that a seek point is present at a chapter mark | |
| or any other designated place in the output file. | |
| For example, to insert a key frame at 5 minutes, plus key | |
| frames 0.1 second before the beginning of every chapter: | |
| -force_key_frames 0:05:00,chapters-0.1 | |
| expr:expr | |
| If the argument is prefixed with "expr:", the string expr is | |
| interpreted like an expression and is evaluated for each frame. | |
| A key frame is forced in case the evaluation is non-zero. | |
| The expression in expr can contain the following constants: | |
| n the number of current processed frame, starting from 0 | |
| n_forced | |
| the number of forced frames | |
| prev_forced_n | |
| the number of the previous forced frame, it is "NAN" when | |
| no keyframe was forced yet | |
| prev_forced_t | |
| the time of the previous forced frame, it is "NAN" when no | |
| keyframe was forced yet | |
| t the time of the current processed frame | |
| For example to force a key frame every 5 seconds, you can | |
| specify: | |
| -force_key_frames expr:gte(t,n_forced*5) | |
| To force a key frame 5 seconds after the time of the last | |
| forced one, starting from second 13: | |
| -force_key_frames expr:if(isnan(prev_forced_t),gte(t,13),gte(t,prev_forced_t+5)) | |
| source | |
| If the argument is "source", ffmpeg will force a key frame if | |
| the current frame being encoded is marked as a key frame in its | |
| source. In cases where this particular source frame has to be | |
| dropped, enforce the next available frame to become a key frame | |
| instead. | |
| Note that forcing too many keyframes is very harmful for the | |
| lookahead algorithms of certain encoders: using fixed-GOP options | |
| or similar would be more efficient. | |
| -copyinkf[:stream_specifier] (output,per-stream) | |
| When doing stream copy, copy also non-key frames found at the | |
| beginning. | |
| -init_hw_device type[=name][:device[,key=value...]] | |
| Initialise a new hardware device of type type called name, using | |
| the given device parameters. If no name is specified it will | |
| receive a default name of the form "type%d". | |
| The meaning of device and the following arguments depends on the | |
| device type: | |
| cuda | |
| device is the number of the CUDA device. | |
| The following options are recognized: | |
| primary_ctx | |
| If set to 1, uses the primary device context instead of | |
| creating a new one. | |
| Examples: | |
| -init_hw_device cuda:1 | |
| Choose the second device on the system. | |
| -init_hw_device cuda:0,primary_ctx=1 | |
| Choose the first device and use the primary device context. | |
| dxva2 | |
| device is the number of the Direct3D 9 display adapter. | |
| d3d11va | |
| device is the number of the Direct3D 11 display adapter. If | |
| not specified, it will attempt to use the default Direct3D 11 | |
| display adapter or the first Direct3D 11 display adapter whose | |
| hardware VendorId is specified by vendor_id. | |
| Examples: | |
| -init_hw_device d3d11va | |
| Create a d3d11va device on the default Direct3D 11 display | |
| adapter. | |
| -init_hw_device d3d11va:1 | |
| Create a d3d11va device on the Direct3D 11 display adapter | |
| specified by index 1. | |
| -init_hw_device d3d11va:,vendor_id=0x8086 | |
| Create a d3d11va device on the first Direct3D 11 display | |
| adapter whose hardware VendorId is 0x8086. | |
| vaapi | |
| device is either an X11 display name, a DRM render node or a | |
| DirectX adapter index. If not specified, it will attempt to | |
| open the default X11 display ($DISPLAY) and then the first DRM | |
| render node (/dev/dri/renderD128), or the default DirectX | |
| adapter on Windows. | |
| The following options are recognized: | |
| kernel_driver | |
| When device is not specified, use this option to specify | |
| the name of the kernel driver associated with the desired | |
| device. This option is available only when the hardware | |
| acceleration method drm and vaapi are enabled. | |
| Examples: | |
| -init_hw_device vaapi | |
| Create a vaapi device on the default device. | |
| -init_hw_device vaapi:/dev/dri/renderD129 | |
| Create a vaapi device on DRM render node | |
| /dev/dri/renderD129. | |
| -init_hw_device vaapi:1 | |
| Create a vaapi device on DirectX adapter 1. | |
| -init_hw_device vaapi:,kernel_driver=i915 | |
| Create a vaapi device on a device associated with kernel | |
| driver i915. | |
| vdpau | |
| device is an X11 display name. If not specified, it will | |
| attempt to open the default X11 display ($DISPLAY). | |
| qsv device selects a value in MFX_IMPL_*. Allowed values are: | |
| auto | |
| sw | |
| hw | |
| auto_any | |
| hw_any | |
| hw2 | |
| hw3 | |
| hw4 | |
| If not specified, auto_any is used. (Note that it may be | |
| easier to achieve the desired result for QSV by creating the | |
| platform-appropriate subdevice (dxva2 or d3d11va or vaapi) and | |
| then deriving a QSV device from that.) | |
| The following options are recognized: | |
| child_device | |
| Specify a DRM render node on Linux or DirectX adapter on | |
| Windows. | |
| child_device_type | |
| Choose platform-appropriate subdevice type. On Windows | |
| d3d11va is used as default subdevice type when | |
| "--enable-libvpl" is specified at configuration time, dxva2 | |
| is used as default subdevice type when "--enable-libmfx" is | |
| specified at configuration time. On Linux user can use | |
| vaapi only as subdevice type. | |
| Examples: | |
| -init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device=/dev/dri/renderD129 | |
| Create a QSV device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE on DRM render | |
| node /dev/dri/renderD129. | |
| -init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device=1 | |
| Create a QSV device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE on DirectX | |
| adapter 1. | |
| -init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device_type=d3d11va | |
| Choose the GPU subdevice with type d3d11va and create QSV | |
| device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE. | |
| -init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device_type=dxva2 | |
| Choose the GPU subdevice with type dxva2 and create QSV | |
| device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE. | |
| -init_hw_device qsv:hw,child_device=1,child_device_type=d3d11va | |
| Create a QSV device with MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE on DirectX | |
| adapter 1 with subdevice type d3d11va. | |
| -init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD129 -init_hw_device | |
| qsv=hw1@va | |
| Create a VAAPI device called va on /dev/dri/renderD129, | |
| then derive a QSV device called hw1 from device va. | |
| opencl | |
| device selects the platform and device as | |
| platform_index.device_index. | |
| The set of devices can also be filtered using the key-value | |
| pairs to find only devices matching particular platform or | |
| device strings. | |
| The strings usable as filters are: | |
| platform_profile | |
| platform_version | |
| platform_name | |
| platform_vendor | |
| platform_extensions | |
| device_name | |
| device_vendor | |
| driver_version | |
| device_version | |
| device_profile | |
| device_extensions | |
| device_type | |
| The indices and filters must together uniquely select a device. | |
| Examples: | |
| -init_hw_device opencl:0.1 | |
| Choose the second device on the first platform. | |
| -init_hw_device opencl:,device_name=Foo9000 | |
| Choose the device with a name containing the string | |
| Foo9000. | |
| -init_hw_device | |
| opencl:1,device_type=gpu,device_extensions=cl_khr_fp16 | |
| Choose the GPU device on the second platform supporting the | |
| cl_khr_fp16 extension. | |
| vulkan | |
| If device is an integer, it selects the device by its index in | |
| a system-dependent list of devices. If device is any other | |
| string, it selects the first device with a name containing that | |
| string as a substring. | |
| The following options are recognized: | |
| debug | |
| If set to 1, enables the validation layer, if installed. | |
| linear_images | |
| If set to 1, images allocated by the hwcontext will be | |
| linear and locally mappable. | |
| instance_extensions | |
| A plus separated list of additional instance extensions to | |
| enable. | |
| device_extensions | |
| A plus separated list of additional device extensions to | |
| enable. | |
| Examples: | |
| -init_hw_device vulkan:1 | |
| Choose the second device on the system. | |
| -init_hw_device vulkan:RADV | |
| Choose the first device with a name containing the string | |
| RADV. | |
| -init_hw_device | |
| vulkan:0,instance_extensions=VK_KHR_wayland_surface+VK_KHR_xcb_surface | |
| Choose the first device and enable the Wayland and XCB | |
| instance extensions. | |
| -init_hw_device type[=name]@source | |
| Initialise a new hardware device of type type called name, deriving | |
| it from the existing device with the name source. | |
| -init_hw_device list | |
| List all hardware device types supported in this build of ffmpeg. | |
| -filter_hw_device name | |
| Pass the hardware device called name to all filters in any filter | |
| graph. This can be used to set the device to upload to with the | |
| "hwupload" filter, or the device to map to with the "hwmap" filter. | |
| Other filters may also make use of this parameter when they require | |
| a hardware device. Note that this is typically only required when | |
| the input is not already in hardware frames - when it is, filters | |
| will derive the device they require from the context of the frames | |
| they receive as input. | |
| This is a global setting, so all filters will receive the same | |
| device. | |
| -hwaccel[:stream_specifier] hwaccel (input,per-stream) | |
| Use hardware acceleration to decode the matching stream(s). The | |
| allowed values of hwaccel are: | |
| none | |
| Do not use any hardware acceleration (the default). | |
| auto | |
| Automatically select the hardware acceleration method. | |
| vdpau | |
| Use VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) hardware | |
| acceleration. | |
| dxva2 | |
| Use DXVA2 (DirectX Video Acceleration) hardware acceleration. | |
| d3d11va | |
| Use D3D11VA (DirectX Video Acceleration) hardware acceleration. | |
| vaapi | |
| Use VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) hardware acceleration. | |
| qsv Use the Intel QuickSync Video acceleration for video | |
| transcoding. | |
| Unlike most other values, this option does not enable | |
| accelerated decoding (that is used automatically whenever a qsv | |
| decoder is selected), but accelerated transcoding, without | |
| copying the frames into the system memory. | |
| For it to work, both the decoder and the encoder must support | |
| QSV acceleration and no filters must be used. | |
| This option has no effect if the selected hwaccel is not available | |
| or not supported by the chosen decoder. | |
| Note that most acceleration methods are intended for playback and | |
| will not be faster than software decoding on modern CPUs. | |
| Additionally, ffmpeg will usually need to copy the decoded frames | |
| from the GPU memory into the system memory, resulting in further | |
| performance loss. This option is thus mainly useful for testing. | |
| -hwaccel_device[:stream_specifier] hwaccel_device (input,per-stream) | |
| Select a device to use for hardware acceleration. | |
| This option only makes sense when the -hwaccel option is also | |
| specified. It can either refer to an existing device created with | |
| -init_hw_device by name, or it can create a new device as if | |
| -init_hw_device type:hwaccel_device were called immediately before. | |
| -hwaccels | |
| List all hardware acceleration components enabled in this build of | |
| ffmpeg. Actual runtime availability depends on the hardware and | |
| its suitable driver being installed. | |
| -fix_sub_duration_heartbeat[:stream_specifier] | |
| Set a specific output video stream as the heartbeat stream | |
| according to which to split and push through currently in-progress | |
| subtitle upon receipt of a random access packet. | |
| This lowers the latency of subtitles for which the end packet or | |
| the following subtitle has not yet been received. As a drawback, | |
| this will most likely lead to duplication of subtitle events in | |
| order to cover the full duration, so when dealing with use cases | |
| where latency of when the subtitle event is passed on to output is | |
| not relevant this option should not be utilized. | |
| Requires -fix_sub_duration to be set for the relevant input | |
| subtitle stream for this to have any effect, as well as for the | |
| input subtitle stream having to be directly mapped to the same | |
| output in which the heartbeat stream resides. | |
| Audio Options | |
| -aframes number (output) | |
| Set the number of audio frames to output. This is an obsolete alias | |
| for "-frames:a", which you should use instead. | |
| -ar[:stream_specifier] freq (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Set the audio sampling frequency. For output streams it is set by | |
| default to the frequency of the corresponding input stream. For | |
| input streams this option only makes sense for audio grabbing | |
| devices and raw demuxers and is mapped to the corresponding demuxer | |
| options. | |
| -aq q (output) | |
| Set the audio quality (codec-specific, VBR). This is an alias for | |
| -q:a. | |
| -ac[:stream_specifier] channels (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Set the number of audio channels. For output streams it is set by | |
| default to the number of input audio channels. For input streams | |
| this option only makes sense for audio grabbing devices and raw | |
| demuxers and is mapped to the corresponding demuxer options. | |
| -an (input/output) | |
| As an input option, blocks all audio streams of a file from being | |
| filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any output. | |
| See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
| As an output option, disables audio recording i.e. automatic | |
| selection or mapping of any audio stream. For full manual control | |
| see the "-map" option. | |
| -acodec codec (input/output) | |
| Set the audio codec. This is an alias for "-codec:a". | |
| -sample_fmt[:stream_specifier] sample_fmt (output,per-stream) | |
| Set the audio sample format. Use "-sample_fmts" to get a list of | |
| supported sample formats. | |
| -af filtergraph (output) | |
| Create the filtergraph specified by filtergraph and use it to | |
| filter the stream. | |
| This is an alias for "-filter:a", see the -filter option. | |
| Advanced Audio options | |
| -atag fourcc/tag (output) | |
| Force audio tag/fourcc. This is an alias for "-tag:a". | |
| -guess_layout_max channels (input,per-stream) | |
| If some input channel layout is not known, try to guess only if it | |
| corresponds to at most the specified number of channels. For | |
| example, 2 tells to ffmpeg to recognize 1 channel as mono and 2 | |
| channels as stereo but not 6 channels as 5.1. The default is to | |
| always try to guess. Use 0 to disable all guessing. | |
| Subtitle options | |
| -scodec codec (input/output) | |
| Set the subtitle codec. This is an alias for "-codec:s". | |
| -sn (input/output) | |
| As an input option, blocks all subtitle streams of a file from | |
| being filtered or being automatically selected or mapped for any | |
| output. See "-discard" option to disable streams individually. | |
| As an output option, disables subtitle recording i.e. automatic | |
| selection or mapping of any subtitle stream. For full manual | |
| control see the "-map" option. | |
| Advanced Subtitle options | |
| -fix_sub_duration | |
| Fix subtitles durations. For each subtitle, wait for the next | |
| packet in the same stream and adjust the duration of the first to | |
| avoid overlap. This is necessary with some subtitles codecs, | |
| especially DVB subtitles, because the duration in the original | |
| packet is only a rough estimate and the end is actually marked by | |
| an empty subtitle frame. Failing to use this option when necessary | |
| can result in exaggerated durations or muxing failures due to non- | |
| monotonic timestamps. | |
| Note that this option will delay the output of all data until the | |
| next subtitle packet is decoded: it may increase memory consumption | |
| and latency a lot. | |
| -canvas_size size | |
| Set the size of the canvas used to render subtitles. | |
| Advanced options | |
| -map [-]input_file_id[:stream_specifier][?] | [linklabel] (output) | |
| Create one or more streams in the output file. This option has two | |
| forms for specifying the data source(s): the first selects one or | |
| more streams from some input file (specified with "-i"), the second | |
| takes an output from some complex filtergraph (specified with | |
| "-filter_complex"). | |
| In the first form, an output stream is created for every stream | |
| from the input file with the index input_file_id. If | |
| stream_specifier is given, only those streams that match the | |
| specifier are used (see the Stream specifiers section for the | |
| stream_specifier syntax). | |
| A "-" character before the stream identifier creates a "negative" | |
| mapping. It disables matching streams from already created | |
| mappings. | |
| A trailing "?" after the stream index will allow the map to be | |
| optional: if the map matches no streams the map will be ignored | |
| instead of failing. Note the map will still fail if an invalid | |
| input file index is used; such as if the map refers to a non- | |
| existent input. | |
| An alternative [linklabel] form will map outputs from complex | |
| filter graphs (see the -filter_complex option) to the output file. | |
| linklabel must correspond to a defined output link label in the | |
| graph. | |
| This option may be specified multiple times, each adding more | |
| streams to the output file. Any given input stream may also be | |
| mapped any number of times as a source for different output | |
| streams, e.g. in order to use different encoding options and/or | |
| filters. The streams are created in the output in the same order in | |
| which the "-map" options are given on the commandline. | |
| Using this option disables the default mappings for this output | |
| file. | |
| Examples: | |
| map everything | |
| To map ALL streams from the first input file to output | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 output | |
| select specific stream | |
| If you have two audio streams in the first input file, these | |
| streams are identified by 0:0 and 0:1. You can use "-map" to | |
| select which streams to place in an output file. For example: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:1 out.wav | |
| will map the second input stream in INPUT to the (single) | |
| output stream in out.wav. | |
| create multiple streams | |
| To select the stream with index 2 from input file a.mov | |
| (specified by the identifier 0:2), and stream with index 6 from | |
| input b.mov (specified by the identifier 1:6), and copy them to | |
| the output file out.mov: | |
| ffmpeg -i a.mov -i b.mov -c copy -map 0:2 -map 1:6 out.mov | |
| create multiple streams 2 | |
| To select all video and the third audio stream from an input | |
| file: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:v -map 0:a:2 OUTPUT | |
| negative map | |
| To map all the streams except the second audio, use negative | |
| mappings | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0 -map -0:a:1 OUTPUT | |
| optional map | |
| To map the video and audio streams from the first input, and | |
| using the trailing "?", ignore the audio mapping if no audio | |
| streams exist in the first input: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:v -map 0:a? OUTPUT | |
| map by language | |
| To pick the English audio stream: | |
| ffmpeg -i INPUT -map 0:m:language:eng OUTPUT | |
| -ignore_unknown | |
| Ignore input streams with unknown type instead of failing if | |
| copying such streams is attempted. | |
| -copy_unknown | |
| Allow input streams with unknown type to be copied instead of | |
| failing if copying such streams is attempted. | |
| -map_metadata[:metadata_spec_out] infile[:metadata_spec_in] | |
| (output,per-metadata) | |
| Set metadata information of the next output file from infile. Note | |
| that those are file indices (zero-based), not filenames. Optional | |
| metadata_spec_in/out parameters specify, which metadata to copy. A | |
| metadata specifier can have the following forms: | |
| g global metadata, i.e. metadata that applies to the whole file | |
| s[:stream_spec] | |
| per-stream metadata. stream_spec is a stream specifier as | |
| described in the Stream specifiers chapter. In an input | |
| metadata specifier, the first matching stream is copied from. | |
| In an output metadata specifier, all matching streams are | |
| copied to. | |
| c:chapter_index | |
| per-chapter metadata. chapter_index is the zero-based chapter | |
| index. | |
| p:program_index | |
| per-program metadata. program_index is the zero-based program | |
| index. | |
| If metadata specifier is omitted, it defaults to global. | |
| By default, global metadata is copied from the first input file, | |
| per-stream and per-chapter metadata is copied along with | |
| streams/chapters. These default mappings are disabled by creating | |
| any mapping of the relevant type. A negative file index can be used | |
| to create a dummy mapping that just disables automatic copying. | |
| For example to copy metadata from the first stream of the input | |
| file to global metadata of the output file: | |
| ffmpeg -i in.ogg -map_metadata 0:s:0 out.mp3 | |
| To do the reverse, i.e. copy global metadata to all audio streams: | |
| ffmpeg -i in.mkv -map_metadata:s:a 0:g out.mkv | |
| Note that simple 0 would work as well in this example, since global | |
| metadata is assumed by default. | |
| -map_chapters input_file_index (output) | |
| Copy chapters from input file with index input_file_index to the | |
| next output file. If no chapter mapping is specified, then chapters | |
| are copied from the first input file with at least one chapter. Use | |
| a negative file index to disable any chapter copying. | |
| -benchmark (global) | |
| Show benchmarking information at the end of an encode. Shows real, | |
| system and user time used and maximum memory consumption. Maximum | |
| memory consumption is not supported on all systems, it will usually | |
| display as 0 if not supported. | |
| -benchmark_all (global) | |
| Show benchmarking information during the encode. Shows real, | |
| system and user time used in various steps (audio/video | |
| encode/decode). | |
| -timelimit duration (global) | |
| Exit after ffmpeg has been running for duration seconds in CPU user | |
| time. | |
| -dump (global) | |
| Dump each input packet to stderr. | |
| -hex (global) | |
| When dumping packets, also dump the payload. | |
| -readrate speed (input) | |
| Limit input read speed. | |
| Its value is a floating-point positive number which represents the | |
| maximum duration of media, in seconds, that should be ingested in | |
| one second of wallclock time. Default value is zero and represents | |
| no imposed limitation on speed of ingestion. Value 1 represents | |
| real-time speed and is equivalent to "-re". | |
| Mainly used to simulate a capture device or live input stream (e.g. | |
| when reading from a file). Should not be used with a low value | |
| when input is an actual capture device or live stream as it may | |
| cause packet loss. | |
| It is useful for when flow speed of output packets is important, | |
| such as live streaming. | |
| -re (input) | |
| Read input at native frame rate. This is equivalent to setting | |
| "-readrate 1". | |
| -readrate_initial_burst seconds | |
| Set an initial read burst time, in seconds, after which | |
| -re/-readrate will be enforced. | |
| -vsync parameter (global) | |
| -fps_mode[:stream_specifier] parameter (output,per-stream) | |
| Set video sync method / framerate mode. vsync is applied to all | |
| output video streams but can be overridden for a stream by setting | |
| fps_mode. vsync is deprecated and will be removed in the future. | |
| For compatibility reasons some of the values for vsync can be | |
| specified as numbers (shown in parentheses in the following table). | |
| passthrough (0) | |
| Each frame is passed with its timestamp from the demuxer to the | |
| muxer. | |
| cfr (1) | |
| Frames will be duplicated and dropped to achieve exactly the | |
| requested constant frame rate. | |
| vfr (2) | |
| Frames are passed through with their timestamp or dropped so as | |
| to prevent 2 frames from having the same timestamp. | |
| auto (-1) | |
| Chooses between cfr and vfr depending on muxer capabilities. | |
| This is the default method. | |
| Note that the timestamps may be further modified by the muxer, | |
| after this. For example, in the case that the format option | |
| avoid_negative_ts is enabled. | |
| With -map you can select from which stream the timestamps should be | |
| taken. You can leave either video or audio unchanged and sync the | |
| remaining stream(s) to the unchanged one. | |
| -frame_drop_threshold parameter | |
| Frame drop threshold, which specifies how much behind video frames | |
| can be before they are dropped. In frame rate units, so 1.0 is one | |
| frame. The default is -1.1. One possible usecase is to avoid | |
| framedrops in case of noisy timestamps or to increase frame drop | |
| precision in case of exact timestamps. | |
| -apad parameters (output,per-stream) | |
| Pad the output audio stream(s). This is the same as applying "-af | |
| apad". Argument is a string of filter parameters composed the same | |
| as with the "apad" filter. "-shortest" must be set for this output | |
| for the option to take effect. | |
| -copyts | |
| Do not process input timestamps, but keep their values without | |
| trying to sanitize them. In particular, do not remove the initial | |
| start time offset value. | |
| Note that, depending on the vsync option or on specific muxer | |
| processing (e.g. in case the format option avoid_negative_ts is | |
| enabled) the output timestamps may mismatch with the input | |
| timestamps even when this option is selected. | |
| -start_at_zero | |
| When used with copyts, shift input timestamps so they start at | |
| zero. | |
| This means that using e.g. "-ss 50" will make output timestamps | |
| start at 50 seconds, regardless of what timestamp the input file | |
| started at. | |
| -copytb mode | |
| Specify how to set the encoder timebase when stream copying. mode | |
| is an integer numeric value, and can assume one of the following | |
| values: | |
| 1 Use the demuxer timebase. | |
| The time base is copied to the output encoder from the | |
| corresponding input demuxer. This is sometimes required to | |
| avoid non monotonically increasing timestamps when copying | |
| video streams with variable frame rate. | |
| 0 Use the decoder timebase. | |
| The time base is copied to the output encoder from the | |
| corresponding input decoder. | |
| -1 Try to make the choice automatically, in order to generate a | |
| sane output. | |
| Default value is -1. | |
| -enc_time_base[:stream_specifier] timebase (output,per-stream) | |
| Set the encoder timebase. timebase can assume one of the following | |
| values: | |
| 0 Assign a default value according to the media type. | |
| For video - use 1/framerate, for audio - use 1/samplerate. | |
| demux | |
| Use the timebase from the demuxer. | |
| filter | |
| Use the timebase from the filtergraph. | |
| a positive number | |
| Use the provided number as the timebase. | |
| This field can be provided as a ratio of two integers (e.g. | |
| 1:24, 1:48000) or as a decimal number (e.g. 0.04166, 2.0833e-5) | |
| Default value is 0. | |
| -bitexact (input/output) | |
| Enable bitexact mode for (de)muxer and (de/en)coder | |
| -shortest (output) | |
| Finish encoding when the shortest output stream ends. | |
| Note that this option may require buffering frames, which | |
| introduces extra latency. The maximum amount of this latency may be | |
| controlled with the "-shortest_buf_duration" option. | |
| -shortest_buf_duration duration (output) | |
| The "-shortest" option may require buffering potentially large | |
| amounts of data when at least one of the streams is "sparse" (i.e. | |
| has large gaps between frames X this is typically the case for | |
| subtitles). | |
| This option controls the maximum duration of buffered frames in | |
| seconds. Larger values may allow the "-shortest" option to produce | |
| more accurate results, but increase memory use and latency. | |
| The default value is 10 seconds. | |
| -dts_delta_threshold threshold | |
| Timestamp discontinuity delta threshold, expressed as a decimal | |
| number of seconds. | |
| The timestamp discontinuity correction enabled by this option is | |
| only applied to input formats accepting timestamp discontinuity | |
| (for which the "AVFMT_TS_DISCONT" flag is enabled), e.g. MPEG-TS | |
| and HLS, and is automatically disabled when employing the "-copyts" | |
| option (unless wrapping is detected). | |
| If a timestamp discontinuity is detected whose absolute value is | |
| greater than threshold, ffmpeg will remove the discontinuity by | |
| decreasing/increasing the current DTS and PTS by the corresponding | |
| delta value. | |
| The default value is 10. | |
| -dts_error_threshold threshold | |
| Timestamp error delta threshold, expressed as a decimal number of | |
| seconds. | |
| The timestamp correction enabled by this option is only applied to | |
| input formats not accepting timestamp discontinuity (for which the | |
| "AVFMT_TS_DISCONT" flag is not enabled). | |
| If a timestamp discontinuity is detected whose absolute value is | |
| greater than threshold, ffmpeg will drop the PTS/DTS timestamp | |
| value. | |
| The default value is "3600*30" (30 hours), which is arbitrarily | |
| picked and quite conservative. | |
| -muxdelay seconds (output) | |
| Set the maximum demux-decode delay. | |
| -muxpreload seconds (output) | |
| Set the initial demux-decode delay. | |
| -streamid output-stream-index:new-value (output) | |
| Assign a new stream-id value to an output stream. This option | |
| should be specified prior to the output filename to which it | |
| applies. For the situation where multiple output files exist, a | |
| streamid may be reassigned to a different value. | |
| For example, to set the stream 0 PID to 33 and the stream 1 PID to | |
| 36 for an output mpegts file: | |
| ffmpeg -i inurl -streamid 0:33 -streamid 1:36 out.ts | |
| -bsf[:stream_specifier] bitstream_filters (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Apply bitstream filters to matching streams. The filters are | |
| applied to each packet as it is received from the demuxer (when | |
| used as an input option) or before it is sent to the muxer (when | |
| used as an output option). | |
| bitstream_filters is a comma-separated list of bitstream filter | |
| specifications, each of the form | |
| <filter>[=<optname0>=<optval0>:<optname1>=<optval1>:...] | |
| Any of the ',=:' characters that are to be a part of an option | |
| value need to be escaped with a backslash. | |
| Use the "-bsfs" option to get the list of bitstream filters. | |
| E.g. | |
| ffmpeg -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -i h264.mp4 -c:v copy -an out.h264 | |
| applies the "h264_mp4toannexb" bitstream filter (which converts | |
| MP4-encapsulated H.264 stream to Annex B) to the input video | |
| stream. | |
| On the other hand, | |
| ffmpeg -i file.mov -an -vn -bsf:s mov2textsub -c:s copy -f rawvideo sub.txt | |
| applies the "mov2textsub" bitstream filter (which extracts text | |
| from MOV subtitles) to the output subtitle stream. Note, however, | |
| that since both examples use "-c copy", it matters little whether | |
| the filters are applied on input or output - that would change if | |
| transcoding was happening. | |
| -tag[:stream_specifier] codec_tag (input/output,per-stream) | |
| Force a tag/fourcc for matching streams. | |
| -timecode hh:mm:ssSEPff | |
| Specify Timecode for writing. SEP is ':' for non drop timecode and | |
| ';' (or '.') for drop. | |
| ffmpeg -i input.mpg -timecode 01:02:03.04 -r 30000/1001 -s ntsc output.mpg | |
| -filter_complex filtergraph (global) | |
| Define a complex filtergraph, i.e. one with arbitrary number of | |
| inputs and/or outputs. For simple graphs -- those with one input | |
| and one output of the same type -- see the -filter options. | |
| filtergraph is a description of the filtergraph, as described in | |
| the ``Filtergraph syntax'' section of the ffmpeg-filters manual. | |
| Input link labels must refer to either input streams or loopback | |
| decoders. For input streams, use the | |
| "[file_index:stream_specifier]" syntax (i.e. the same as -map | |
| uses). If stream_specifier matches multiple streams, the first one | |
| will be used. | |
| For decoders, the link label must be [dec:dec_idx], where dec_idx | |
| is the index of the loopback decoder to be connected to given | |
| input. | |
| An unlabeled input will be connected to the first unused input | |
| stream of the matching type. | |
| Output link labels are referred to with -map. Unlabeled outputs are | |
| added to the first output file. | |
| Note that with this option it is possible to use only lavfi sources | |
| without normal input files. | |
| For example, to overlay an image over video | |
| ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i image.png -filter_complex '[0:v][1:v]overlay[out]' -map | |
| '[out]' out.mkv | |
| Here "[0:v]" refers to the first video stream in the first input | |
| file, which is linked to the first (main) input of the overlay | |
| filter. Similarly the first video stream in the second input is | |
| linked to the second (overlay) input of overlay. | |
| Assuming there is only one video stream in each input file, we can | |
| omit input labels, so the above is equivalent to | |
| ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i image.png -filter_complex 'overlay[out]' -map | |
| '[out]' out.mkv | |
| Furthermore we can omit the output label and the single output from | |
| the filter graph will be added to the output file automatically, so | |
| we can simply write | |
| ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i image.png -filter_complex 'overlay' out.mkv | |
| As a special exception, you can use a bitmap subtitle stream as | |
| input: it will be converted into a video with the same size as the | |
| largest video in the file, or 720x576 if no video is present. Note | |
| that this is an experimental and temporary solution. It will be | |
| removed once libavfilter has proper support for subtitles. | |
| For example, to hardcode subtitles on top of a DVB-T recording | |
| stored in MPEG-TS format, delaying the subtitles by 1 second: | |
| ffmpeg -i input.ts -filter_complex \ | |
| '[#0x2ef] setpts=PTS+1/TB [sub] ; [#0x2d0] [sub] overlay' \ | |
| -sn -map '#0x2dc' output.mkv | |
| (0x2d0, 0x2dc and 0x2ef are the MPEG-TS PIDs of respectively the | |
| video, audio and subtitles streams; 0:0, 0:3 and 0:7 would have | |
| worked too) | |
| To generate 5 seconds of pure red video using lavfi "color" source: | |
| ffmpeg -filter_complex 'color=c=red' -t 5 out.mkv | |
| -filter_complex_threads nb_threads (global) | |
| Defines how many threads are used to process a filter_complex | |
| graph. Similar to filter_threads but used for "-filter_complex" | |
| graphs only. The default is the number of available CPUs. | |
| -lavfi filtergraph (global) | |
| Define a complex filtergraph, i.e. one with arbitrary number of | |
| inputs and/or outputs. Equivalent to -filter_complex. | |
| -accurate_seek (input) | |
| This option enables or disables accurate seeking in input files | |
| with the -ss option. It is enabled by default, so seeking is | |
| accurate when transcoding. Use -noaccurate_seek to disable it, | |
| which may be useful e.g. when copying some streams and transcoding | |
| the others. | |
| -seek_timestamp (input) | |
| This option enables or disables seeking by timestamp in input files | |
| with the -ss option. It is disabled by default. If enabled, the | |
| argument to the -ss option is considered an actual timestamp, and | |
| is not offset by the start time of the file. This matters only for | |
| files which do not start from timestamp 0, such as transport | |
| streams. | |
| -thread_queue_size size (input/output) | |
| For input, this option sets the maximum number of queued packets | |
| when reading from the file or device. With low latency / high rate | |
| live streams, packets may be discarded if they are not read in a | |
| timely manner; setting this value can force ffmpeg to use a | |
| separate input thread and read packets as soon as they arrive. By | |
| default ffmpeg only does this if multiple inputs are specified. | |
| For output, this option specified the maximum number of packets | |
| that may be queued to each muxing thread. | |
| -sdp_file file (global) | |
| Print sdp information for an output stream to file. This allows | |
| dumping sdp information when at least one output isn't an rtp | |
| stream. (Requires at least one of the output formats to be rtp). | |
| -discard (input) | |
| Allows discarding specific streams or frames from streams. Any | |
| input stream can be fully discarded, using value "all" whereas | |
| selective discarding of frames from a stream occurs at the demuxer | |
| and is not supported by all demuxers. | |
| none | |
| Discard no frame. | |
| default | |
| Default, which discards no frames. | |
| noref | |
| Discard all non-reference frames. | |
| bidir | |
| Discard all bidirectional frames. | |
| nokey | |
| Discard all frames excepts keyframes. | |
| all Discard all frames. | |
| -abort_on flags (global) | |
| Stop and abort on various conditions. The following flags are | |
| available: | |
| empty_output | |
| No packets were passed to the muxer, the output is empty. | |
| empty_output_stream | |
| No packets were passed to the muxer in some of the output | |
| streams. | |
| -max_error_rate (global) | |
| Set fraction of decoding frame failures across all inputs which | |
| when crossed ffmpeg will return exit code 69. Crossing this | |
| threshold does not terminate processing. Range is a floating-point | |
| number between 0 to 1. Default is 2/3. | |
| -xerror (global) | |
| Stop and exit on error | |
| -max_muxing_queue_size packets (output,per-stream) | |
| When transcoding audio and/or video streams, ffmpeg will not begin | |
| writing into the output until it has one packet for each such | |
| stream. While waiting for that to happen, packets for other streams | |
| are buffered. This option sets the size of this buffer, in packets, | |
| for the matching output stream. | |
| The default value of this option should be high enough for most | |
| uses, so only touch this option if you are sure that you need it. | |
| -muxing_queue_data_threshold bytes (output,per-stream) | |
| This is a minimum threshold until which the muxing queue size is | |
| not taken into account. Defaults to 50 megabytes per stream, and is | |
| based on the overall size of packets passed to the muxer. | |
| -auto_conversion_filters (global) | |
| Enable automatically inserting format conversion filters in all | |
| filter graphs, including those defined by -vf, -af, -filter_complex | |
| and -lavfi. If filter format negotiation requires a conversion, the | |
| initialization of the filters will fail. Conversions can still be | |
| performed by inserting the relevant conversion filter (scale, | |
| aresample) in the graph. On by default, to explicitly disable it | |
| you need to specify "-noauto_conversion_filters". | |
| -bits_per_raw_sample[:stream_specifier] value (output,per-stream) | |
| Declare the number of bits per raw sample in the given output | |
| stream to be value. Note that this option sets the information | |
| provided to the encoder/muxer, it does not change the stream to | |
| conform to this value. Setting values that do not match the stream | |
| properties may result in encoding failures or invalid output files. | |
| -stats_enc_pre[:stream_specifier] path (output,per-stream) | |
| -stats_enc_post[:stream_specifier] path (output,per-stream) | |
| -stats_mux_pre[:stream_specifier] path (output,per-stream) | |
| Write per-frame encoding information about the matching streams | |
| into the file given by path. | |
| -stats_enc_pre writes information about raw video or audio frames | |
| right before they are sent for encoding, while -stats_enc_post | |
| writes information about encoded packets as they are received from | |
| the encoder. -stats_mux_pre writes information about packets just | |
| as they are about to be sent to the muxer. Every frame or packet | |
| produces one line in the specified file. The format of this line is | |
| controlled by -stats_enc_pre_fmt / -stats_enc_post_fmt / | |
| -stats_mux_pre_fmt. | |
| When stats for multiple streams are written into a single file, the | |
| lines corresponding to different streams will be interleaved. The | |
| precise order of this interleaving is not specified and not | |
| guaranteed to remain stable between different invocations of the | |
| program, even with the same options. | |
| -stats_enc_pre_fmt[:stream_specifier] format_spec (output,per-stream) | |
| -stats_enc_post_fmt[:stream_specifier] format_spec (output,per-stream) | |
| -stats_mux_pre_fmt[:stream_specifier] format_spec (output,per-stream) | |
| Specify the format for the lines written with -stats_enc_pre / | |
| -stats_enc_post / -stats_mux_pre. | |
| format_spec is a string that may contain directives of the form | |
| {fmt}. format_spec is backslash-escaped --- use \{, \}, and \\ to | |
| write a literal {, }, or \, respectively, into the output. | |
| The directives given with fmt may be one of the following: | |
| fidx | |
| Index of the output file. | |
| sidx | |
| Index of the output stream in the file. | |
| n Frame number. Pre-encoding: number of frames sent to the | |
| encoder so far. Post-encoding: number of packets received from | |
| the encoder so far. Muxing: number of packets submitted to the | |
| muxer for this stream so far. | |
| ni Input frame number. Index of the input frame (i.e. output by a | |
| decoder) that corresponds to this output frame or packet. -1 if | |
| unavailable. | |
| tb Timebase in which this frame/packet's timestamps are expressed, | |
| as a rational number num/den. Note that encoder and muxer may | |
| use different timebases. | |
| tbi Timebase for ptsi, as a rational number num/den. Available when | |
| ptsi is available, 0/1 otherwise. | |
| pts Presentation timestamp of the frame or packet, as an integer. | |
| Should be multiplied by the timebase to compute presentation | |
| time. | |
| ptsi | |
| Presentation timestamp of the input frame (see ni), as an | |
| integer. Should be multiplied by tbi to compute presentation | |
| time. Printed as (2^63 - 1 = 9223372036854775807) when not | |
| available. | |
| t Presentation time of the frame or packet, as a decimal number. | |
| Equal to pts multiplied by tb. | |
| ti Presentation time of the input frame (see ni), as a decimal | |
| number. Equal to ptsi multiplied by tbi. Printed as inf when | |
| not available. | |
| dts (packet) | |
| Decoding timestamp of the packet, as an integer. Should be | |
| multiplied by the timebase to compute presentation time. | |
| dt (packet) | |
| Decoding time of the frame or packet, as a decimal number. | |
| Equal to dts multiplied by tb. | |
| sn (frame,audio) | |
| Number of audio samples sent to the encoder so far. | |
| samp (frame,audio) | |
| Number of audio samples in the frame. | |
| size (packet) | |
| Size of the encoded packet in bytes. | |
| br (packet) | |
| Current bitrate in bits per second. | |
| abr (packet) | |
| Average bitrate for the whole stream so far, in bits per | |
| second, -1 if it cannot be determined at this point. | |
| key (packet) | |
| Character 'K' if the packet contains a keyframe, character 'N' | |
| otherwise. | |
| Directives tagged with packet may only be used with | |
| -stats_enc_post_fmt and -stats_mux_pre_fmt. | |
| Directives tagged with frame may only be used with | |
| -stats_enc_pre_fmt. | |
| Directives tagged with audio may only be used with audio streams. | |
| The default format strings are: | |
| pre-encoding | |
| {fidx} {sidx} {n} {t} | |
| post-encoding | |
| {fidx} {sidx} {n} {t} | |
| In the future, new items may be added to the end of the default | |
| formatting strings. Users who depend on the format staying exactly | |
| the same, should prescribe it manually. | |
| Note that stats for different streams written into the same file | |
| may have different formats. | |
| Preset files | |
| A preset file contains a sequence of option=value pairs, one for each | |
| line, specifying a sequence of options which would be awkward to | |
| specify on the command line. Lines starting with the hash ('#') | |
| character are ignored and are used to provide comments. Check the | |
| presets directory in the FFmpeg source tree for examples. | |
| There are two types of preset files: ffpreset and avpreset files. | |
| ffpreset files | |
| ffpreset files are specified with the "vpre", "apre", "spre", and | |
| "fpre" options. The "fpre" option takes the filename of the preset | |
| instead of a preset name as input and can be used for any kind of | |
| codec. For the "vpre", "apre", and "spre" options, the options | |
| specified in a preset file are applied to the currently selected codec | |
| of the same type as the preset option. | |
| The argument passed to the "vpre", "apre", and "spre" preset options | |
| identifies the preset file to use according to the following rules: | |
| First ffmpeg searches for a file named arg.ffpreset in the directories | |
| $FFMPEG_DATADIR (if set), and $HOME/.ffmpeg, and in the datadir defined | |
| at configuration time (usually PREFIX/share/ffmpeg) or in a ffpresets | |
| folder along the executable on win32, in that order. For example, if | |
| the argument is "libvpx-1080p", it will search for the file | |
| libvpx-1080p.ffpreset. | |
| If no such file is found, then ffmpeg will search for a file named | |
| codec_name-arg.ffpreset in the above-mentioned directories, where | |
| codec_name is the name of the codec to which the preset file options | |
| will be applied. For example, if you select the video codec with | |
| "-vcodec libvpx" and use "-vpre 1080p", then it will search for the | |
| file libvpx-1080p.ffpreset. | |
| avpreset files | |
| avpreset files are specified with the "pre" option. They work similar | |
| to ffpreset files, but they only allow encoder- specific options. | |
| Therefore, an option=value pair specifying an encoder cannot be used. | |
| When the "pre" option is specified, ffmpeg will look for files with the | |
| suffix .avpreset in the directories $AVCONV_DATADIR (if set), and | |
| $HOME/.avconv, and in the datadir defined at configuration time | |
| (usually PREFIX/share/ffmpeg), in that order. | |
| First ffmpeg searches for a file named codec_name-arg.avpreset in the | |
| above-mentioned directories, where codec_name is the name of the codec | |
| to which the preset file options will be applied. For example, if you | |
| select the video codec with "-vcodec libvpx" and use "-pre 1080p", then | |
| it will search for the file libvpx-1080p.avpreset. | |
| If no such file is found, then ffmpeg will search for a file named | |
| arg.avpreset in the same directories. | |
| vstats file format | |
| The "-vstats" and "-vstats_file" options enable generation of a file | |
| containing statistics about the generated video outputs. | |
| The "-vstats_version" option controls the format version of the | |
| generated file. | |
| With version 1 the format is: | |
| frame= <FRAME> q= <FRAME_QUALITY> PSNR= <PSNR> f_size= <FRAME_SIZE> s_size= <STREAM_SIZE>kB time= <TIMESTAMP> br= <BITRATE>kbits/s avg_br= <AVERAGE_BITRATE>kbits/s | |
| With version 2 the format is: | |
| out= <OUT_FILE_INDEX> st= <OUT_FILE_STREAM_INDEX> frame= <FRAME_NUMBER> q= <FRAME_QUALITY>f PSNR= <PSNR> f_size= <FRAME_SIZE> s_size= <STREAM_SIZE>kB time= <TIMESTAMP> br= <BITRATE>kbits/s avg_br= <AVERAGE_BITRATE>kbits/s | |
| The value corresponding to each key is described below: | |
| avg_br | |
| average bitrate expressed in Kbits/s | |
| br bitrate expressed in Kbits/s | |
| frame | |
| number of encoded frame | |
| out out file index | |
| PSNR | |
| Peak Signal to Noise Ratio | |
| q quality of the frame | |
| f_size | |
| encoded packet size expressed as number of bytes | |
| s_size | |
| stream size expressed in KiB | |
| st out file stream index | |
| time | |
| time of the packet | |
| type | |
| picture type | |
| See also the -stats_enc options for an alternative way to show encoding | |
| statistics. | |
| EXAMPLES | |
| Video and Audio grabbing | |
| If you specify the input format and device then ffmpeg can grab video | |
| and audio directly. | |
| ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /tmp/out.mpg | |
| Or with an ALSA audio source (mono input, card id 1) instead of OSS: | |
| ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 1 -i hw:1 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /tmp/out.mpg | |
| Note that you must activate the right video source and channel before | |
| launching ffmpeg with any TV viewer such as | |
| <http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/> by Gerd Knorr. You also have to set | |
| the audio recording levels correctly with a standard mixer. | |
| X11 grabbing | |
| Grab the X11 display with ffmpeg via | |
| ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size cif -framerate 25 -i :0.0 /tmp/out.mpg | |
| 0.0 is display.screen number of your X11 server, same as the DISPLAY | |
| environment variable. | |
| ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size cif -framerate 25 -i :0.0+10,20 /tmp/out.mpg | |
| 0.0 is display.screen number of your X11 server, same as the DISPLAY | |
| environment variable. 10 is the x-offset and 20 the y-offset for the | |
| grabbing. | |
| Video and Audio file format conversion | |
| Any supported file format and protocol can serve as input to ffmpeg: | |
| Examples: | |
| o You can use YUV files as input: | |
| ffmpeg -i /tmp/test%d.Y /tmp/out.mpg | |
| It will use the files: | |
| /tmp/test0.Y, /tmp/test0.U, /tmp/test0.V, | |
| /tmp/test1.Y, /tmp/test1.U, /tmp/test1.V, etc... | |
| The Y files use twice the resolution of the U and V files. They are | |
| raw files, without header. They can be generated by all decent | |
| video decoders. You must specify the size of the image with the -s | |
| option if ffmpeg cannot guess it. | |
| o You can input from a raw YUV420P file: | |
| ffmpeg -i /tmp/test.yuv /tmp/out.avi | |
| test.yuv is a file containing raw YUV planar data. Each frame is | |
| composed of the Y plane followed by the U and V planes at half | |
| vertical and horizontal resolution. | |
| o You can output to a raw YUV420P file: | |
| ffmpeg -i mydivx.avi hugefile.yuv | |
| o You can set several input files and output files: | |
| ffmpeg -i /tmp/a.wav -s 640x480 -i /tmp/a.yuv /tmp/a.mpg | |
| Converts the audio file a.wav and the raw YUV video file a.yuv to | |
| MPEG file a.mpg. | |
| o You can also do audio and video conversions at the same time: | |
| ffmpeg -i /tmp/a.wav -ar 22050 /tmp/a.mp2 | |
| Converts a.wav to MPEG audio at 22050 Hz sample rate. | |
| o You can encode to several formats at the same time and define a | |
| mapping from input stream to output streams: | |
| ffmpeg -i /tmp/a.wav -map 0:a -b:a 64k /tmp/a.mp2 -map 0:a -b:a 128k /tmp/b.mp2 | |
| Converts a.wav to a.mp2 at 64 kbits and to b.mp2 at 128 kbits. | |
| '-map file:index' specifies which input stream is used for each | |
| output stream, in the order of the definition of output streams. | |
| o You can transcode decrypted VOBs: | |
| ffmpeg -i snatch_1.vob -f avi -c:v mpeg4 -b:v 800k -g 300 -bf 2 -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k snatch.avi | |
| This is a typical DVD ripping example; the input is a VOB file, the | |
| output an AVI file with MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio. Note that in | |
| this command we use B-frames so the MPEG-4 stream is DivX5 | |
| compatible, and GOP size is 300 which means one intra frame every | |
| 10 seconds for 29.97fps input video. Furthermore, the audio stream | |
| is MP3-encoded so you need to enable LAME support by passing | |
| "--enable-libmp3lame" to configure. The mapping is particularly | |
| useful for DVD transcoding to get the desired audio language. | |
| NOTE: To see the supported input formats, use "ffmpeg -demuxers". | |
| o You can extract images from a video, or create a video from many | |
| images: | |
| For extracting images from a video: | |
| ffmpeg -i foo.avi -r 1 -s WxH -f image2 foo-%03d.jpeg | |
| This will extract one video frame per second from the video and | |
| will output them in files named foo-001.jpeg, foo-002.jpeg, etc. | |
| Images will be rescaled to fit the new WxH values. | |
| If you want to extract just a limited number of frames, you can use | |
| the above command in combination with the "-frames:v" or "-t" | |
| option, or in combination with -ss to start extracting from a | |
| certain point in time. | |
| For creating a video from many images: | |
| ffmpeg -f image2 -framerate 12 -i foo-%03d.jpeg -s WxH foo.avi | |
| The syntax "foo-%03d.jpeg" specifies to use a decimal number | |
| composed of three digits padded with zeroes to express the sequence | |
| number. It is the same syntax supported by the C printf function, | |
| but only formats accepting a normal integer are suitable. | |
| When importing an image sequence, -i also supports expanding shell- | |
| like wildcard patterns (globbing) internally, by selecting the | |
| image2-specific "-pattern_type glob" option. | |
| For example, for creating a video from filenames matching the glob | |
| pattern "foo-*.jpeg": | |
| ffmpeg -f image2 -pattern_type glob -framerate 12 -i 'foo-*.jpeg' -s WxH foo.avi | |
| o You can put many streams of the same type in the output: | |
| ffmpeg -i test1.avi -i test2.avi -map 1:1 -map 1:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:0 -c copy -y test12.nut | |
| The resulting output file test12.nut will contain the first four | |
| streams from the input files in reverse order. | |
| o To force CBR video output: | |
| ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -b 4000k -minrate 4000k -maxrate 4000k -bufsize 1835k out.m2v | |
| o The four options lmin, lmax, mblmin and mblmax use 'lambda' units, | |
| but you may use the QP2LAMBDA constant to easily convert from 'q' | |
| units: | |
| ffmpeg -i src.ext -lmax 21*QP2LAMBDA dst.ext | |
| SEE ALSO | |
| ffmpeg-all(1), ffplay(1), ffprobe(1), ffmpeg-utils(1), | |
| ffmpeg-scaler(1), ffmpeg-resampler(1), ffmpeg-codecs(1), | |
| ffmpeg-bitstream-filters(1), ffmpeg-formats(1), ffmpeg-devices(1), | |
| ffmpeg-protocols(1), ffmpeg-filters(1) | |
| AUTHORS | |
| The FFmpeg developers. | |
| For details about the authorship, see the Git history of the project | |
| (https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg), e.g. by typing the command git log in | |
| the FFmpeg source directory, or browsing the online repository at | |
| <https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg>. | |
| Maintainers for the specific components are listed in the file | |
| MAINTAINERS in the source code tree. | |
| FFMPEG(1) | |