If we want to know the formats and codecs that are available, we will write the commands 'ffmpeg -formats' or 'ffmpeg -codecs', always without the quotes. If this is all we want, the command will be like the following:įfmpeg -i archivodeentrada.mp3 archivodesalida.wavĪs you can see, the only thing to remember is add '-i' in front of the input file and the output file (replace 'inputfile' and 'outputfile' with a name of your choice). Convert MP3 to WAV with FFmpegĬonverting audio files to other formats with FFmpeg can be very simple. And now, we are going to convert the audio to other formats. There are many options, but this article is going to focus on a simple one. Once installed and if you want to be impressed, you can type 'ffmpeg -help' to see what it can do.

If we don't see something like the above, we install FFmpeg with the following command: sudo apt install ffmpeg We will see something like the following: The shortcut is much simpler: we simply type the name of the framework, that is, 'Ffmpeg' without the quotes. The official way is to write, without the quotes, 'ffmpeg -version' in the terminal, which will show us the version of the framework that we have installed and the available options. We can do it in two ways, one of them is the official one and the other as a shortcut. The first thing we will do is make sure that we have FFmpeg installed on our computer. 1 FFmpeg is compatible with most popular formatsįFmpeg is compatible with most popular formats.See Text on video using ffmpeg for many more examples. You can add text with the drawtext filter: ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=c=blue:s=1280x720 -i input.mp3 -vf 'drawtext=fontfile=/path/to/font.ttf:text='Your -shortest -fflags +shortest output.mp4

If you want a plain color background use the color filter: ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=c=blue:s=1280x720 -i input.mp3 -shortest -fflags +shortest output.mp4 See Resizing videos with ffmpeg to fit into specific size for more info and examples. This command uses the scale + pad filters to make image fit into 1920x1080, setsar filter to set a normal Sample Aspect Ratio, then the format filter sets the chroma subsampling to YUV 4:2:0 for playback compatibility. Using an image ffmpeg -loop 1 -i input.jpg -i input.mp3 -vf 'scale=1920:1080:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1920:1080:-1:-1:color=black,setsar=1,format=yuv420p' -shortest -fflags +shortest output.mp4

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