Welcome! Introduction

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!