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Making Movies with FFmpeg

Description and Overview

FFmpeg is an open source project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.

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How to Use FFmpeg

Type the following commands to use FFmpeg:

module load ffmpeg
ffmpeg --help

To get a list of supported codecs type:

ffmpeg -codecs

Further Information 

Official documentations are available from FFmpeg home page