Hi all!
Only after I made an account on this instance I saw that there already is a community on lemmy.world. many instances might defederate, so this one is useful.
My motivation: I use / have used ffmpeg for
- encoding any audio to opus, variable bitrate (there are 2 modes, not sure why and mode 1 seems to be better)
- converting stereo audio to mono, duplicated to 2 channels
- cutting audio and video
- encoding any kind of video to AV1, using svt_av1 (the software encoder which sadly produces way better results than qsv_av1 on my Intel Arc)
- extracting screenshots from video
- converting multiple images into a video for timelapse recordings
- converting videos to animated images (webp)
- add metadata to videos and audios
- concatenate audiobooks in several folders to a single file including chapter metadata
- ...
I will post all my scripts here in some time and hope for an engaging community to exchange tips, parameters etc! Ffmpeg is not very easy to use but incredibly efficient!