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FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.

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How to install two packages that write the same file

I have two packages that each create /usr/bin/ffprobe. One of them is ffmpeg from the Deb Multimedia repository, while the other is ffmbc 0.7-rc5 built from source. The hand-rolled one is business-critical, and we used to just install it from source…
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How can I stop FFMPEG?

Someone setup a server and has FFMPEG is trying to encode a video and it has effectively killed the web server. I didn't set it up but have sudo access and need to kill FFMPEG so that the web server starts responding again. How can I do this? Thank…
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Ubuntu install php5-ffmpeg

When I try to install php5-ffmpeg: apt-get install php5-ffmpeg I get an error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-ffmpeg : Depends: phpapi-20090626+lfs As I understand my php5-ffmpeg was broken when I upgraded php from 5.3 to…
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Save the stream to mp4 files

How can I keep the flow (protocol rtsp, codec h264) in file (container mp4)? That is, on input an endless stream (with CCTV camera), and the output files in mp4 format size of 5-10 minutes of recording time. OS: debian, ubuntu Software: vlc, ffmpeg…
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path to ffmpeg in linux hosting server

what will be the path to ffmpeg on linux server.......
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ffmpeg continue listen port

I'm trying to configure restream server, ffmpeg listen on rtmp://ip:port and output to few stream services(youtube, twitch...etc) the problem is when I stop OBS streaming(using this on local pc) ffmpeg on server going down and i need manually run it…
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How do I make SMB faster on Windows?

My problem is the throughput of FFmpeg is severely limited by the speed of SMB performance. Using Wireshark I found out that FFmpeg writes are sent to my Synology SMB share in 500 byte packets with Windows 7. Running the same version of FFmpeg on…
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ffmpeg with x11grab results in black screen in vlc playback

I've installed ffmpeg on an AWS instance and have been unsuccessfuly trying to record an X session, to which I've connected over x11rdp, with the client being Microsoft Remote Desktop. Here's the terminal command I am using and its output: $ ffmpeg…
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FFMPEG AAC Encoder Vanished?

I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS x64. I've been using ffmpeg on this machine to encode H.264 videos with AAC audio for over a year. There was an update to the ffmpeg packages this week that seems to have broken the AAC encoder. The command I'm…
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Is there anything better than FFMPEG?

Just wondering if I should go with FFMPEG or is there a better alternative for processing videos? Thanks !
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How do I reduce RAM usage on my server?

I have recently launched a site that is very popular but I am having trouble with scalability. My site makes heavy use of FFmpeg and at peak times RAM usage hits the 2 GB point quickly and the swap file starts getting used. CPU usage starts rising…
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FFMPEG-generated DASH Manifest for Livestream is invalid, but is still playable on some players

I am trying to embed an RTSP stream from an IP Camera into a website. I've found out, that embedding an RTSP directly is tricky and resourceful, also it requires the user to take some crucial actions (installing different players like VLC or…
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Why I can't install ffmpeg on CentOS 7

I want to install ffmpeg to my CentOS 7 server but I can't, it say we missing some libs that I can't find where and how to install them. This is command i used and the error occured: [root@www13 ~]# yum install ffmpeg -y Loaded plugins:…
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How to save stream in mp4 format?

By default nginx rtmp module records video stream in .flv format if record option is enabled, but I need .mp4 I found that video can be converted to .mp4 when record has finished with exec_record_done callback and ffmpeg Is there any way to record…
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Using 'which' command in cron job

I have a cron job that runs once a day on a Linux server and in the script it executes there is a test: # Validate ffmpeg is installed if [ $(which ffmpeg | grep -c "ffmpeg") -eq 0 ]; then echo "error: ffmpeg is not installed!" | tee -a "$log" …
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