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!