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 …
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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 …
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…
Недостающее звено при обработке медиа на Go
Большинство медиа-библиотек для Go рано или поздно упираются в одну и ту же проблему. У них нет собственного декодера. Вместо этого они полагаются на …
Зачем мне фото- и видеоредакторы с GUI, когда есть FFmpeg?
...или записки из палаты Линуксоида Часто ли вам пригождается базовая обработка фото или видео? Понизить разрешение, вырезать область, нанести текст, …
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…
How to Split Video into Segments with FFmpeg (CLI + API)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com . You need to chop a long video into equal-length clips. Maybe you're building a social media repurposing pip…
How to Encode H.265 Video with FFmpeg (CRF + Preset Guide)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com H.265 (HEVC) produces files 30-50% smaller than H.264 at the same visual quality. The trade-off is encoding t…
FFmpeg Subtitles Filter: How to Burn SRT Subtitles Into Video
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com FFmpeg's subtitles filter burns SRT or ASS captions directly into the video pixels. Unlike soft subtitles (wh…
Replacing Myself with an AI Talking Avatar in 48 Hours
Quick Summary Open-source video generation models are extremely heavy and require significant local GPU orchestration for batch processing. Audio drif…
How to Extract Audio from Video with FFmpeg (MP3, WAV, and API Guide)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You recorded a webinar, a YouTube video, or a product demo. Now you need the audio track as a standalone file…
FFmpeg CRF Explained: Quality vs File Size Guide
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Every video encoder faces the same tradeoff: quality vs. file size. CRF (Constant Rate Factor) is how FFmpeg …
How to Speed Up or Slow Down Video with FFmpeg
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com . You need to speed up a video for a timelapse effect or slow it down for dramatic slow motion. FFmpeg handle…
How to Generate Video Thumbnails with FFmpeg (CLI + API)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need a thumbnail from a video file. Maybe you're building a video gallery, generating preview images for …
Why Your Reddit Video Downloads Have No Sound (And How to Fix It)
If you've ever tried to download a video from Reddit, you've probably ended up with a silent MP4 file. No audio. No error. Just a video that should ha…