Cursor + FFmpeg Micro: Ship Video Features Without Learning FFmpeg
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You're building a product. Somewhere in the spec, there's a video feature: thumbnail generation, format conve…
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FFmpeg chromakey Filter: Remove Green Screen Backgrounds
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Green screen removal is one of those FFmpeg operations that looks simple until you actually try it. Most tuto…
FFmpeg dynaudnorm Filter: Dynamic Audio Normalization Guide
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You're editing together clips from three different recording sessions, and every cut brings a jarring volume …
I Added Scene Transitions to Reel Quick with FastAPI, Next.js, and FFmpeg
Building reels by stitching short clips together works, but hard cuts can make the final video feel rough. I wanted Reel Quick to produce something sm…
I rebuilt my Windows video downloader from scratch — yt-dlp + FFmpeg + PyInstaller, 1,700 downloads later
Three months ago I posted here about Grabbit, a desktop video downloader I built for Windows. The app has grown a lot since then — new engine, local f…
Probing FFmpeg's av1_vulkan encoder: does your GPU actually support it?
TL;DR FFmpeg 8.x includes av1_vulkan , the first cross-vendor GPU AV1 encoder in mainline FFmpeg. We'll probe whether your GPU + driver actually expos…
How to Use FFmpeg with Pipedream (No Timeout Errors, No Binary Setup)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com If you've tried running FFmpeg inside a Pipedream workflow, you've probably hit one of two walls: the step ti…
How to Use FFmpeg with Swift (No Installation Required)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need server-side video processing in your Swift app. Maybe you're building a Vapor backend that transcode…
Force keyframe-aligned GOPs across an ABR ladder with FFmpeg
TL;DR If your stream hitches on quality switches but shows zero rebuffering, your ABR renditions probably have keyframes in different places. We'll en…
Benchmark NVENC vs CPU transcoding (and find your real break-even) with FFmpeg
📦 Code: github.com/USER/nvenc-vs-cpu-bench - replace before publishing TL;DR A GPU encodes faster than a CPU, but "faster" and "cheaper" are different…
FFmpeg HDR to SDR tone mapping that doesn't look washed out (2026)
TL;DR Converting HDR10 to SDR with a naive FFmpeg command gives you grey, washed-out video. The fix is tone mapping. We will detect HDR with ffprobe ,…
RSS Feed to YouTube Short: Build the Full Pipeline
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Every time a new article drops in your RSS feed, you could turn it into a YouTube Short. Not manually. Fully …
How to Use FFmpeg with Deno (No Installation Required)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You're building something in Deno and you need video processing. Thumbnail generation, format conversion, tra…
How to Add FFmpeg to an Airtable Automation
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Airtable is great at tracking content. Rows of video files with status columns, due dates, assignees. But whe…
FFmpeg filter_complex Explained: Multi-Input Processing and Filter Chains
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com FFmpeg's -vf flag handles simple, single-stream operations just fine. Scale a video, crop it, add a watermark…
Building Hardware-Accelerated FFmpeg on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB
Abstract This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for installing FFmpeg with hardware acceleration (NVENC/NVDEC) on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 6…
Remotion + FFmpeg Micro: Programmatic Video Without the Lambda Bill
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Remotion lets you build videos the same way you build React components. But moving those compositions from yo…
How to Change Video Frame Rate with FFmpeg
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Different platforms demand different frame rates. A 60fps screen recording won't fly on a broadcast system ex…
How to Get an FFmpeg API Key in 60 Seconds
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com FFmpeg doesn't have an API. It's a command-line tool. If you want to process video from your app, you either …
Hardware Video Compression in Rust on macOS — ffmpeg with VideoToolbox
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. HiyokoAutoSync optionally …
Build scrub-bar thumbnail previews with FFmpeg and a WebVTT sprite
TL;DR We're going to add hover-preview thumbnails (the little image that follows your cursor on a video scrub bar) to a player. Backend is one FFmpeg …
Auto-Generate YouTube Thumbnails from Any Video (Make.com + FFmpeg)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com YouTube creators spend 10 to 20 minutes per video picking and editing a thumbnail. Multiply that by daily upl…
How to Use FFmpeg with C# (No Installation Required)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Most C# video processing guides start the same way: download an FFmpeg binary, add it to your PATH, then call…
Auto-Add Captions to Every Video Your Team Uploads (n8n + FFmpeg)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Every video your team publishes needs captions. Accessibility requirements, social media autoplay, SEO value.…
Add Video Processing to Your Vercel + Supabase App in 10 Minutes
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Most Vercel + Supabase apps hit the same wall: a user uploads a video, and you need to do something with it. …
Two-pass loudness normalization with FFmpeg loudnorm (the right way)
TL;DR We normalize audio to a consistent perceived loudness using FFmpeg's loudnorm filter in two passes : pass 1 measures, pass 2 applies a linear ga…
Server-Side WebRTC Noise Reduction with Pion, FFmpeg, and RNN Models
This is a sanitized engineering note about server-side audio noise reduction for WebRTC calls. Source article: https://www.lodan.me/posts/server-side-…
FFmpeg Segment Muxer: segment_time, strftime, and reset_timestamps
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com The FFmpeg segment muxer splits a video into multiple files based on duration. Three flags cause most of the …
FFmpeg as a Service: Process Video with One API Call
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You've got FFmpeg running locally. The transcoding works. Then someone asks you to deploy it, and you realize…
I Built Cuekiyo: a Local-First Anime OP/ED Video Pipeline with React, FastAPI, yt-dlp and FFmpeg
I just released Cuekiyo v1.0.0 , an open-source local web app for building anime opening and ending compilation videos. The idea is simple: Pick anime…