Welcome to the FFmpeg Bug Tracker and Wiki

This Wiki is intended for all kinds of FFmpeg and multimedia related information. Everyone is welcome to add to, edit and improve it!

Bug Reports

Go Straight To the list of current Bug Reports: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/report/1

All Reports Page (slow): https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/report/1?sort=ticket&max=300&asc=1&page=1

Please read the ​bug tracker manual before filing a new report to trac. Also see ​this guide.

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FFmpeg Official Documentation

• ​Documentation -- FFmpeg's own documentation, including links to things like developer guides.
• Notes on Maintaining FFmpeg Source Code
• Submit an FFmpeg Logo -- Instructions on how to submit a themed logo or banner to FFmpeg.

• ​List of FFmpeg API changes/compatibility test results

Community Contributed Documentation

Compiling FFmpeg

• Compilation Guide -- FFmpeg Compilation Guide
• Compile Benchmarks
• Known Compilation Issues -- Log of Known Issues and Proposed Solutions When Compiling FFmpeg with Certain Compilers (i.e. Intel C Compiler and MSVC)
• How to quickly compile libx264 as a pre-requisite to using it within ffmpeg
• How to quickly compile libaacplus as a pre-requisite to using it within ffmpeg
• How to quickly compile FFmpeg with libx264 (x264, H.264)
• How to quickly compile FFmpeg with mp3, aac+ and x264
• How to compile FFmpeg for Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
• How to compile FFmpeg for Android

Encoding

• x264 Encoding Guide
• VFX Encoding Guide
• MP3 Encoding Guide
• Xvid / Divx / MPEG4 Encoding Guide
• AAC Encoding Guide

Grabbing/Capturing

• How to capture a webcam input
• How to grab the desktop (screen) with FFmpeg
• Capturing audio with FFmpeg and ALSA

Streaming

• Streaming Guide -- FFmpeg Streaming Guide
• Streaming media with ffserver

Filtering

• Filtering Guide -- FFmpeg Filtering Guide
• Fancy Filtering Examples -- Examples for various psychedelic effects and other weird filtering

Images/Frames

• Create a video slideshow from images
• Create a thumbnail image every X seconds of the video
• How to take multiple screenshots to an image (tile, mosaic)

Subtitles

• How to burn subtitles into the video
• How to convert subtitle from SRT to ASS format

Development

• How to setup Eclipse IDE for FFmpeg development
• Using libav* Instructions for how to integrate FFmpeg's main libraries into your own custom programs.
• Including FFmpeg headers in a C++ application

Other/FAQ

• audio types -- list of the different types of raw audio.
• Creating multiple outputs from the same input
• How to change audio volume up-down with FFmpeg
• How to concatenate (join, merge) media files
• How to encode with ffmpeg from Adobe Premiere Pro
• How to encode videos for YouTube and other video sharing sites
• How to speed up / slow down a video time lapse, etc.
• How to use -map option to select exactly which streams to process.
• Seeking with FFmpeg if you need to split a file, or select just a part of one.
• A small wikibook: ​http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FFMPEG_An_Intermediate_Guide, though seems a bit unmaintained.
• How to capture a lightning (thunderbolt) with FFmpeg?
• Using FFmpeg from PHP scripts
• Option '-sameq' does NOT mean 'same quality'
• High quality audio resampling with FFmpeg and the SoX Resampler.

All wiki pages

For a complete list of all local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

Trac Documentation

Trac is what FFmpeg uses for tracking bugs (and also hosts this wiki).

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• ​The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support