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A comprehensive cheatsheet of FFmpeg commands with descriptions and examples, covering video and audio processing tasks such as format conversion, resizing, trimming, extracting audio, and adding effects.

FFmpeg Cheatsheet

Common FFmpeg Options

Option Description Example
-i Input file ffmpeg -i input.mp4
-vf Video filters (apply effects to video) ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=1280:720" output.mp4
-c:v Video codec (specify video compression method) ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 output.mp4
-c:a Audio codec (specify audio compression method) ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:a aac output.mp4