Because of this, accessing its magic is only possible in the shell, or else with some kind of interface between regular human beings and the wonders of FFmpeg.Įnter ffe a simple, powerful Windows front-end for FFmpeg designed for rapid testing of FFmpeg's many, many conversion options inside a (hopefully more) user-friendly interface. Of course, it allows you do do things the correct way, too. With FFmpeg you can basically convert anything to anything, whilst doing crazy stuff like mixing MP3 audio tracks with H264 video, and adding ID3 tags to AVI files. In the time it took you to read this paragraph, a new format has been added.įFmpeg, by Fabrice Bellard, et al., is truly incredible software.
It is capable of handling a vast number of input and output (audio, video and other) formats, and depending on which binary you use supports either a huge number of control parameters, or a really huge number of control parameters. FFmpeg is, by miles and miles, the best multimedia converter / streamer / recorder in existence.