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How-To: Install FFmpeg on Debian Etch
NB: This How-To is now almost totally worthless as it is so out of date. Please click here for an updated version explaining how to install FFmpeg on Debian Squeeze. – I have to say, that the video...
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How-To: Install FFMPEG on Ubuntu Gutsy
I wanted to install FFmpeg on my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) desktop machine. This is so I can encode and transcode video files to various formats locally, and also render projects from the non-linear...
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How-To: Find and Extract Video File Details
Using FFMpeg it is relatively simple to query an existing video file to find details such as video codec, audio codec, bitrates, duration and dimensions. Use the following FFmpeg command in a terminal...
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Open Movie Editor How-To: Fade to Black Transition
After my previous overview of Open Movie Editor (OME), I decided to create a small How-To regarding an easily obtainable piece of functionality that’s not yet standard within OME. Open Movie Editor...
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How-To: Extract images from a video file using FFmpeg
Extracting all frames from a video file is easily achieved with FFmpeg. Here’s a simple command line that will create 25 PNG images from every second of footage in the input DV file. The images will be...
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How-To: Alter Video Speed with FFmpeg and mjpegtools
Unfortunately my Linux based non-linear editing tool of choice, Open Movie Editor, doesn’t currently support directly altering video playback speed. For example, if you wanted a portion of your new...
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New FFMpeg Changes Headers Location; Breaks Stuff
Recently, and it’s hard to say exactly which SVN snapshot this occured in, the FFMpeg project changed the location of a number of its header files. This has caused soem havoc with other applications...
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