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FFmpeg Basics: Multimedia handling with a fast audio and video encoder Paperback – December 28, 2012

by Frantisek Korbel (Author)

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The book will try to make you familiar with FFmpeg tools that are used by Facebook, Google and many other companies. You will learn how to:

scale, pad, crop, flip, rotate, blur, sharpen and denoise video
speed up or slow down audio and video
create sounds with mathematical expressions
generate refrain of winter song Jingle Bells
let the computer to read the text with selected voice
display and record input from your webcam
record input from microphone or send it to loudspeakers
convert video to images and images to video
add static or dynamic text on video
add, edit or delete file metadata
preview modified input in 2, 3 or 4 windows
include a logo or provide Picture in Picture
simplify repeated tasks with batch jobs
display input from 2 webcams in one window
set the bitrate, frame rate, maximum file size and related options
display FFmpeg help and information about its codecs, formats, protocols, etc.
use various filters in filterchains and filtergraphs
encode subtitles directly to the video stream
join various file formats, modify streams and modify audio channels
monetize uploads on video sharing websites
and much more

Book is printed in full color, contains over 100 tables and over 150 images including various diagrams and can be used both like a tutorial and reference. The brief content:

FFmpeg Fundamentals
Displaying Help and Features
Bit Rate, Frame Rate and File Size
Resizing and Scaling Video
Cropping Video
Padding Video
Flipping and Rotating Video
Blur, Sharpen and Other Denoising
Overlay - Picture in Picture
Adding Text on Video
Conversion Between Formats
Time Operations
Mathematical Functions
Metadata and Subtitles
Image Processing
Digital Audio
Presets for Codecs
Interlaced Video
FFmpeg Components and Projects
Microphone and Webcam
Batch Files
Color Corrections
Advanced Techniques
Video on Web
Debugging and Tests

Print length

216 pages
Language

English
Publication date

December 28, 2012
Dimensions

8.5 x 0.51 x 11 inches
ISBN-10

1479327832
ISBN-13

978-1479327836
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 28, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479327832
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479327836
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.51 x 11 inches

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Jan Ozer

Must have for beginners

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014

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If you compress a lot of video, sooner or later you're going to have to get familiar with FFmpeg. This book does a great job organizing the information in a very extensive table of contents (though there is no index), and provides simple command line arguments for all configuration options that you can easily integrate into your own encodings.

Sure, all the information is on the Internet, but for $20 this book will save you a bunch of time and provide much better answers.

Highly recommended

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Robert D. Clark

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015

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Contains lots of facts and useful diagrams. However, it is poorly written. The grammar is atrocious.

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Moozi

Advantages: Colorful, big fonts, simple explaining. ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014

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Advantages: Colorful, big fonts, simple explaining.
Disadvantages: Too basic, only covers command based features and not the API. Sometimes you think it is written by Yoda.

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2015

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Excellent Book

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Jheroen P. Dorenbosch

Good overview of abilties

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2013

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This book will give you a good idea of the scope of what FFmpeg can do for you. There are many examples that are easy to apply. The book also gives you hints of the more esoteric possibilities and idea of where to look for more information. In short, well worth it.

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videoman

Great Book!

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2013

In general, this is a very detailed description of the use of ffmpeg, accompanied by many examples, charts and diagrams.
I found this book an easy read and I am actively using it as a reference for ffmpeg capabilities.

chapter 1) style is a walk thru tutorial. nice description of ffmpeg and related tools, executables and underlying libraries.
Author also mentions the various key developers of ffmpeg and their particular expertise;
I thought this background added to intro chapter nicely.

Another nice touch is mentioning environment settings and alternative cmd prompt programs that can be used in place of the basic 'DOS' prompt.

The author then dives into command line use of the ffmpeg tool in regards to output formatting,transcoding basics and the various media streams.

chapter 2 continues the introduction theme and describes the help and features of ffmpeg.
This is a fairly indepth overview of help syntax and usage of the help syntax;
There is a complete list of the video and audio codecs, filters and formats and a very nice caterogization of each;

Command line usage is discussed, offering tips for controling the output with utlities such as the 'more' cmd and output redirection.

Chapter 3 starts to get into the meat of video and audio handling. in regards to frame rate, a good description is
given of frame rates for the most popular standards, followed by examples of frame rate handling from the ffmpeg command line.

chapter 4 thru 10 go into resizing, scaling, cropping, padding, overlays and adding text to video, going into details of algorithms such as the nyquist
sampling algorythm. The author has a good knack of expressing the details in understandable terms, usually ending with ffmpeg command line examples.

chapter 11 is where the most common usage of ffmpeg is discussed; conversions between formats. Multi-colored charts and tables present the vast collection of containers (formats) and codecs. Discussion of the most popular codecs are given including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AC-3 audio, etc.

Chapter 12 thru 14 discuss other features such as time operations, math and metadata. The basics of starting and stopping streams servers as a good starting point for stream manipulation.

Image Processing is delved into in Chapter 15. Ffmpeg offers tools for creating images, conversion of video frames to image files (.bmp, png, etc.); for instance, a specific frame number can be targeted for conversion to any of the support image formats. These images can then be padded, cropped etc. The usual ample number of ffmpeg
command line examples are used to illustrate the purpose of these ffmpeg tools.

If Audio is your thing, Chapter 16 addressed the basics of audio, as well as ffmpeg tools for processing audio.

Chapter 17, 'Preset for Codecs' addresses the packaging of the many options for a particular codec.

The remaining chapters discuss Interlaced video, a discussion of FFMpeg libraries and the interesting integration with the host computer's
webcam, microphone and speaker system.

All in all, a great book bursting with many examples, charts and sample output. A must book for anybody interested in the FFMpeg tool.

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Mark Yang

Very Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2013

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This is not book for FFMPEG SDK. It's user guide for ffmpeg.exe problem is contents of this book is less useful than default help page or man page. It is useless for advanced user and also hard to read for novice. I suspected crude cover page for first time. But I thought it's about FFMPEG SDK or advanced technique for ffmpeg.exe..I was wrong. Page layout is really ragged It seems even elementary school children can make better layout. I wonder how could this kind book can be published. It is seems like crude print out of child. In summary It is total *DISASTER*

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Jmaster

Excellent book!

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2013

I bought the pdf version of the book (on the official website), and though I haven't read it all, I know that this book is currently the best guide/book on learning ffmpeg. The author does a really good job in keeping things organized and using plain English to describe how to use ffmpeg.

The only thing I wish there was more of was more examples or "projects" to reinforce the material learned, but this can easily be done by testing out the material on your own with the examples already provided.

Overall, I enjoy reading this book and think that anyone wanting to learn ffmpeg should start with this book.

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Nigel MacLeod-Carey

Great book to learn ffmpeg

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2018

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Great book to learn ffmpeg, particularly syntax of commands. Loads of helpful summary charts and tables make it easy to use as a reference.

ximeg

Gutes Buch

Reviewed in Germany on May 18, 2015

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Das ist ein sehr hilfreiches Buch, das mit vielen anwendungsorientierten Beispiele und bunten Bilder die Benutzung von ffmpeg übersichtlich erklärt.

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Giovanni

Buon libro, ma troppa pratica

Reviewed in Italy on August 23, 2013

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Il libro è molto buono, leggibile, con molti diagrammi che spiegano in modo dettagliato quello che succede, anche se sono poco commentati dall'autore. Copertina e pagine molto resistenti. Non contiene però una sezione per il troubleshooting, la qual cosa sarebbe molto utile.
E' comunque un buon libro per iniziare.

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Steven Pickard Cardvark

Good information, poor presentation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2013

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Good book. Lots of information. Very annoying style. Doesn't cover ffserver. Well worth having around if you're working with ffmpeg.

My criticism of the style could be just personal preference. Irrespective of this the book does what you would buy it for. It's aimed at users not developers so don't expect a lot of techy stuff.

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