
A slow -preset will take longer but compress the file better. This will download videofile.mp4 and will use a fast encoding to compression speed, so the file will be quiet large but it will encode it quickly. Here you can see we are fetching/downloading the videolink.mp4 file and saving (copying) it as downloadedfile.mp4 ffmpeg -i "" -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 downloadedfile.mp4 Will return all kinds of information about the media file such as bitrate, fps, encoded type, subtitles info, audio info, channels and more. Now comes the fun, the basics of FFmpeg is as follows ffmpeg -i "" Next create a new text file and rename it something like fetch.bat so it’s now the bat extension rather than text.

I am going to cater this guide towards windows users, once you have downloaded the FFmpeg.zip open it and drag the 3 files from the bin folder into C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Īnd make sure the files are unblocked by right clicking and going to properties and ticking UNBLOCK at the bottom of the details tab. I find it very good at downloading streams (m3u8 and ts files). FFmpeg is a very simple way to download, convert and stream media (video and audio).
