ffmpeg tutorials and examples

Command line – scale a video using ffmpeg

Command line utility ffmpeg can be used to scale a video to a specific widht and height. Here are some examples. Resize to given width read more

Convert mp3 to ogg on Mac using ffmpeg

Sometimes we need to convert mp3 files to ogg files. Ogg is an open format and produces fairly small size files. Here are the instructions read more

Install ffmpeg on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux (14.04) does not have ffmpeg in default package source repositories. ffmpeg can be installed using mc3man ppa (personal package archive) using the following read more

Mac – how to convert mp4 to webm

Command line utility ffmpeg can be used to convert mp4 video to webm format on Mac or Linux. Here are quick steps for Mac. First read more