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Useful commands for converting videos using ffmpeg
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Examples taken from https://opensource.com/article/17/6/ffmpeg-convert-media-file-formats | |
| # Convert a webm file to a matroska format with a vp9 encoding and keeping the same audio encoding. | |
| # Also changes the bitrate to 1Mb/s | |
| ffmpeg -i input.webm -c:a copy -c:v vp9 -b:v 1M output.mkv | |
| # Same but change the frame rate to 30 FPS and dropping the bitrate conversion | |
| ffmpeg -i input.webm -c:a copy -c:v vp9 -r 30 output.mkv | |
| # Same but only setting the video size to a predetermined format HD 720 in this case |