


newsubtitle add a new subtitle stream to the current output stream scodec codec force subtitle codec ('copy' to copy stream) dframes number set the number of data frames to record target type specify target file type ("vcd", "svcd", "dvd", "dv", "dv50", "pal-vcd", "ntsc-svcd". itsoffset time_off set the input ts offset formats show available formats, codecs, protocols.

Which returns all of the options available: It is easy to see the flexibility and limitless combinations of conversions possible by typing Useful if the codecs mentioned above are installed to non-standard locations. extra-libs allows you to point the compiler to additional libraries.

extra-cflags allows you to point the compiler to include files that are not in standard locations ( /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib). enable-libogg and -enable-libvorbis and -enable-libfaac and -enable-libfaad allow you to stick it to the (fee-charging MP3-owning) man by using a free codec, available at enable-libmp3lame allows encoding/decoding MP3s enable-libamr_nb and -enable-libamr_wb is for encoding/decoding narrowband and wideband audio streams from cellphones (linux-friendly versions of these libaries are available at ) enable-libxvid is for encoding/decoding using the DivX standard (which uses the XviD library, available at ) enable-liba52 is for encoding/decoding AC3 aduio extra-libs="-L/path/to/some/lib -libsomelibrary -L/path/to/another/lib -libanotherlibrary" extra-cflags="-I/path/to/some/include -I/path/to/another/include" \ There's a very helpful guide to installing ffmpeg here: You can go to to download either a bleeding-edge SVN or Git version, or a release version. If you're on a Mac, you can now use Brew to install ffmpeg! This saves you the headache of downloading/installing a dozen dependencies. You can do a number of different operations, but these can be grouped into a few categories, as they are here: image-to-video, video-to-image, and video-to-video. The power of ffmpeg lies in its ability to convert just about anything to just about anything else. Ffmpeg is an all-in-one video conversion swiss army knife.
