mdsohelmia / vidutils

a very simple, tiny and intuitive ffmpeg wrapper with a cli interface for inspecting & transforming media files supported by the original ffmpeg software

About

a very simple, tiny and intuitive ffmpeg wrapper with a cli interface for inspecting & transforming media files supported by the original ffmpeg software.

Why

I wanted to learn more about ffmpeg and dig deep into its use cases, so I tried to build a simple wrapper that is consdered a shortcut for ffmpeg.

Features

• Inspecting a video file to get its info including (duration, size, thumbnail, ... etc).
• Transforming a video file (converting, resizing and compressing).
• Generating a HLS playlist from a video file.

Requirements

• ffmpeg command line
• ffprobe command line

Downloads

go to the releases page.

Usage

for now, execute the downloaded binary with the --help flag, example:

$ ./vidutils_linux_amd64 --help

Thanks To

• H.264 Video Encoding Guide
• CRF Guide (Constant Rate Factor in x264, x265 and libvpx)
• Creating A Production Ready Multi Bitrate HLS VOD stream
• How can I reduce a video's size with ffmpeg?
• Video Quality – What is Video Bitrate(kbps), Pixels (p) & Aspect Ratios
• How do I reduze the size of a video to a target size?
• Resize/Scale/Change Resolution of a Video using FFmpeg Easily
• How to consider bitrate, -maxrate and -bufsize of a video for web
• How much data does YouTube actually use?
• YouTube Audio Quality Bitrate