FFMPEG Help

Want a better experience to what the official FFmpeg Filters Documentation shows?

Use FFmpeg Filters Docs!

General options

Hardware acceleration

ffmpeg -hwaccel "auto"
CPUVAAPINVIDIAAMDIntel
libsvtav1
libdav1d
av1_vaapiav1_nvenc
av1_cuvid
av1_amf
libx264
h264
h264_vaapih264_nvenc
h264_cuvid
h264_amfh264_qsv
libx265
hevc
hevc_vaapihevc_nvenc
hevc_cuvid
hevc_amfhevc_qsv
libvpxvp8_vaapi
libvpx-vp9vp9_vaapivp9_qsv

Less verbose

ffmpeg -hide_banner -v "error" -stats

Video Filters

Constant FPS

Duplicate/Drop frames

-vf "fps=60"

(linearly) Interpolate frames

-vf "framerate=60"

Fast Denoise

-vf "hqdn3d"

Slow Denoise

-vf "nlmeans=2:7:5:3:3"
-hwaccel vulkan -i $input -vf "format=yuv444p,hwupload,nlmeans_vulkan=2:7:3,hwdownload,format=yuv444p" $output

Deinterlace

-vf "yadif=1"

Resize

-vf "scale=1920x-1"

Using -1 as a size preserves the aspect ratio.

Audio Filters

5.1 to Stereo

-af "volume=1.660156,pan=stereo|FL=0.5*FC+0.707*FL+0.707*BL+0.707*SL+0.5*LFE|FR=0.5*FC+0.707*FR+0.707*BR+0.707*SR+0.5*LFE" 

Loudness Normalization

-af "loudnorm" -pass 1 -f null /dev/null 
&&
-af "loudnorm" -ar 48000 -pass 2 $output 

Video double pass

-c:v libx265 -crf 25 -pass 1 -f null /dev/null 
&&
-c:v libx265 -crf 25 -pass 2 $output 
-c:v libvpx-vp9 -row-mt 1 -b:v 0 -crf 25 -pass 1 -f null /dev/null 
&&
-c:v libvpx-vp9 -row-mt 1 -b:v 0 -crf 25 -pass 2 $output