FFmpeg is one of the most powerful tools for video transcoding and manipulation, but it's fairly complex and confusing to use. That's why I decided to create this cheat sheet which shows some of the most often used commands.
Let's start with some basics:
ffmpegcalls the FFmpeg application in the command line window, could also be the full path to the FFmpeg binary or .exe file-iis follwed by the path to the input video-c:vsets the video codec you want to use