-c:v also seen as -vcodec sets the video codec, while -c:a or -acodec sets the audio codec. Adding the option copy after each results in FFMPEG using and copying the codec from the input file.
It is common to see on programming forums, such as Stack Overflow, examples where the author has copied the codec from one format type to another. More often than not, this is risky but due to programs like VLC playback isn’t halted regardless of format type + codec combinations. Below is an example of risky codec copying:
The reason for concern is the avi format supports a wide range of codecs, DivX, Xvid, H.264, and MPEG-4 to name a few. Whereas mp4 does not natively support DivX, Xvid or other codecs. So copying video codecs blindly may result in a faulty playback.
Note: VLC might play a mp4 with a DivX codec but uploading to Instagram may not because it does not have a decoder for DivX playback.
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Unlike codecs, formats are the digital input / output containers FFMPEG understands.
While an mp4 file is the extension we are used to seeing, inside contains encoded video and audio with various codecs. For example, an mp4 file might contain one of the following audio codecs: ACC, AC3, ALS, MP3, ACC or plenty more.
Depending on which video and audio codecs is used, will depend on which format the output audio or video file will be. This is not an automatic result but a manual selection so being familiar with the supported formats FFMPEG supports is necessary
$ ffmpeg -formats
Note: Be aware that the output of this command will result in a list detailing hundreds of FFMPEG supported formats. For the full list of supported formats, refer to the section TBD in the back of this book.
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Below are the current (March 25th, 2020) formats:
File formats:
D. = Demuxing supported
.E = Muxing supported
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D 3dostr 3DO STR
E 3g2 3GP2 (3GPP2 file format)
E 3gp 3GP (3GPP file format)
D 4xm 4X Technologies
E a64 a64 - video for Commodore 64
D aa Audible AA format files
D aac raw ADTS AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
DE ac3 raw AC-3
D acm Interplay ACM
D act ACT Voice file format
D adf Artworx Data Format
D adp ADP
D ads Sony PS2 ADS
E adts ADTS AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
DE adx CRI ADX
D aea MD STUDIO audio
D afc AFC
DE aiff Audio IFF
D aix CRI AIX
DE alaw PCM A-law
D alias_pix Alias/Wavefront PIX image
DE amr 3GPP AMR
D amrnb raw AMR-NB
D amrwb raw AMR-WB
D anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D apc CRYO APC
D ape Monkey's Audio
DE apng Animated Portable Network Graphics
DE aptx raw aptX (Audio Processing Technology for Bluetooth)
DE aptx_hd raw aptX HD (Audio Processing Technology for Bluetooth)
D aqtitle AQTitle subtitles
DE asf ASF (Advanced / Active Streaming Format)
D asf_o ASF (Advanced / Active Streaming Format)
E asf_stream ASF (Advanced / Active Streaming Format)
DE ass SSA (SubStation Alpha) subtitle
DE ast AST (Audio Stream)
DE au Sun AU
D avfoundation AVFoundation input device
DE avi AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)
E avm2 SWF (ShockWave Flash) (AVM2)
D avr AVR (Audio Visual Research)
D avs Argonaut Games Creature Shock
DE avs2 raw AVS2-P2/IEEE1857.4 video
D bethsoftvid Bethesda Softworks VID
D bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D bfstm BFSTM (Binary Cafe Stream)
D bin Binary text
D bink Bink
DE bit G.729 BIT file format
D bmp_pipe piped bmp sequence
D bmv Discworld II BMV
D boa Black Ops Audio
D brender_pix BRender PIX image
D brstm BRSTM (Binary Revolution Stream)
D c93 Interplay C93
DE caf Apple CAF (Core Audio Format)
DE cavsvideo raw Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
D cdg CD Graphics
D cdxl Commodore CDXL video
D cine Phantom Cine
DE codec2 codec2 .c2 muxer
DE codec2raw raw codec2 muxer
D concat Virtual concatenation script
E crc CRC testing
E dash DASH Muxer
DE data raw data
DE daud D-Cinema audio
D dcstr Sega DC STR
D dds_pipe piped dds sequence
D dfa Chronomaster DFA
D dhav Video DAV
DE dirac raw Dirac
DE dnxhd raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D dpx_pipe piped dpx sequence
D dsf DSD Stream File (DSF)
D dsicin Delphine Software International CIN
D dss Digital Speech Standard (DSS)
DE dts raw DTS
D dtshd raw DTS-HD
DE dv DV (Digital Video)
D dvbsub raw dvbsub
D dvbtxt dvbtxt
E dvd MPEG-2 PS (DVD VOB)
D dxa DXA
D ea Electronic Arts Multimedia
D ea_cdata Electronic Arts cdata
DE eac3 raw E-AC-3
D epaf Ensoniq Paris Audio File
D exr_pipe piped exr sequence
DE f32be PCM 32-bit floating-point big-endian
DE f32le PCM 32-bit floating-point little-endian
E f4v F4V Adobe Flash Video
DE f64be PCM 64-bit floating-point big-endian
DE f64le PCM 64-bit floating-point little-endian
DE ffmetadata FFmpeg metadata in text
E fifo FIFO queue pseudo-muxer
E fifo_test Fifo test muxer
DE film_cpk Sega FILM / CPK
DE filmstrip Adobe Filmstrip
DE fits Flexible Image Transport System
DE flac raw FLAC
D flic FLI/FLC/FLX animation
DE flv FLV (Flash Video)
E framecrc framecrc testing
E framehash Per-frame hash testing
E framemd5 Per-frame MD5 testing
D frm Megalux Frame
D fsb FMOD Sample Bank
DE g722 raw G.722
DE g723_1 raw G.723.1
DE g726 raw big-endian G.726 ("left-justified")
DE g726le raw little-endian G.726 ("right-justified")
D g729 G.729 raw format demuxer
D gdv Gremlin Digital Video
D genh GENeric Header
DE gif CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
D gif_pipe piped gif sequence
DE gsm raw GSM
DE gxf GXF (General eXchange Format)
DE h261 raw H.261
DE h263 raw H.263
DE h264 raw H.264 video
E hash Hash testing
D hcom Macintosh HCOM
E hds HDS Muxer
DE hevc raw HEVC video
DE hls Apple HTTP Live Streaming
D hnm Cryo HNM v4
DE ico Microsoft Windows ICO
D idcin id Cinematic
D idf iCE Draw File
D iff IFF (Interchange File Format)
D ifv IFV CCTV DVR
DE ilbc iLBC storage
DE image2 image2 sequence
DE image2pipe piped image2 sequence
D ingenient raw Ingenient MJPEG
D ipmovie Interplay MVE
E ipod iPod H.264 MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)
DE ircam Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound Format
E ismv ISMV/ISMA (Smooth Streaming)
D iss Funcom ISS
D iv8 IndigoVision 8000 video
DE ivf On2 IVF
D ivr IVR (Internet Video Recording)
D j2k_pipe piped j2k sequence
DE jacosub JACOsub subtitle format
D jpeg_pipe piped jpeg sequence
D jpegls_pipe piped jpegls sequence
D jv Bitmap Brothers JV
D kux KUX (YouKu)
E latm LOAS/LATM
D lavfi Libavfilter virtual input device
D live_flv live RTMP FLV (Flash Video)
D lmlm4 raw lmlm4
D loas LOAS AudioSyncStream
DE lrc LRC lyrics
D lvf LVF
D lxf VR native stream (LXF)
DE m4v raw MPEG-4 video
E matroska Matroska
D matroska,webm Matroska / WebM
E md5 MD5 testing
D mgsts Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
DE microdvd MicroDVD subtitle format
DE mjpeg raw MJPEG video
D mjpeg_2000 raw MJPEG 2000 video
E mkvtimestamp_v2 extract pts as timecode v2 format, as defined by mkvtoolnix
DE mlp raw MLP
D mlv Magic Lantern Video (MLV)
D mm American Laser Games MM
DE mmf Yamaha SMAF
E mov QuickTime / MOV
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime / MOV
E mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
DE mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
E mp4 MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)
D mpc Musepack
D mpc8 Musepack SV8
DE mpeg MPEG-1 Systems / MPEG program stream
E mpeg1video raw MPEG-1 video
E mpeg2video raw MPEG-2 video
DE mpegts MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
D mpegtsraw raw MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
D mpegvideo raw MPEG video
DE mpjpeg MIME multipart JPEG
D mpl2 MPL2 subtitles
D mpsub MPlayer subtitles
D msf Sony PS3 MSF
D msnwctcp MSN TCP Webcam stream
D mtaf Konami PS2 MTAF
D mtv MTV
DE mulaw PCM mu-law
D musx Eurocom MUSX
D mv Silicon Graphics Movie
D mvi Motion Pixels MVI
DE mxf MXF (Material eXchange Format)
E mxf_d10 MXF (Material eXchange Format) D-10 Mapping
E mxf_opatom MXF (Material eXchange Format) Operational Pattern Atom
D mxg MxPEG clip
D nc NC camera feed
D nistsphere NIST SPeech HEader REsources
D nsp Computerized Speech Lab NSP
D nsv Nullsoft Streaming Video
E null raw null video
DE nut NUT
D nuv NuppelVideo
E oga Ogg Audio
DE ogg Ogg
E ogv Ogg Video
DE oma Sony OpenMG audio
E opus Ogg Opus
D paf Amazing Studio Packed Animation File
D pam_pipe piped pam sequence
D pbm_pipe piped pbm sequence
D pcx_pipe piped pcx sequence
D pgm_pipe piped pgm sequence
D pgmyuv_pipe piped pgmyuv sequence
D pictor_pipe piped pictor sequence
D pjs PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society) subtitles
D pmp Playstation Portable PMP
D png_pipe piped png sequence
D ppm_pipe piped ppm sequence
D psd_pipe piped psd sequence
E psp PSP MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)
D psxstr Sony Playstation STR
D pva TechnoTrend PVA
D pvf PVF (Portable Voice Format)
D qcp QCP
D qdraw_pipe piped qdraw sequence
D r3d REDCODE R3D
DE rawvideo raw video
D realtext RealText subtitle format
D redspark RedSpark
D rl2 RL2
DE rm RealMedia
DE roq raw id RoQ
D rpl RPL / ARMovie
D rsd GameCube RSD
DE rso Lego Mindstorms RSO
DE rtp RTP output
E rtp_mpegts RTP/mpegts output format
DE rtsp RTSP output
DE s16be PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
DE s16le PCM signed 16-bit little-endian
DE s24be PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
DE s24le PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
DE s32be PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
DE s32le PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
D s337m SMPTE 337M
DE s8 PCM signed 8-bit
D sami SAMI subtitle format
DE sap SAP output
DE sbc raw SBC
D sbg SBaGen binaural beats script
DE scc Scenarist Closed Captions
E sdl,sdl2 SDL2 output device
D sdp SDP
D sdr2 SDR2
D sds MIDI Sample Dump Standard
D sdx Sample Dump eXchange
E segment segment
D ser SER (Simple uncompressed video format for astronomical capturing)
D sgi_pipe piped sgi sequence
D shn raw Shorten
D siff Beam Software SIFF
E singlejpeg JPEG single image
D sln Asterisk raw pcm
DE smjpeg Loki SDL MJPEG
D smk Smacker
E smoothstreaming Smooth Streaming Muxer
D smush LucasArts Smush
D sol Sierra SOL
DE sox SoX native
DE spdif IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF - IEC958)
E spx Ogg Speex
DE srt SubRip subtitle
D stl Spruce subtitle format
E stream_segment,ssegment streaming segment muxer
D subviewer SubViewer subtitle format
D subviewer1 SubViewer v1 subtitle format
D sunrast_pipe piped sunrast sequence
DE sup raw HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles
D svag Konami PS2 SVAG
E svcd MPEG-2 PS (SVCD)
D svg_pipe piped svg sequence
DE swf SWF (ShockWave Flash)
D tak raw TAK
D tedcaptions TED Talks captions
E tee Multiple muxer tee
D thp THP
D tiertexseq Tiertex Limited SEQ
D tiff_pipe piped tiff sequence
D tmv 8088flex TMV
DE truehd raw TrueHD
DE tta TTA (True Audio)
D tty Tele-typewriter
D txd Renderware TeXture Dictionary
D ty TiVo TY Stream
DE u16be PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
DE u16le PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
DE u24be PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
DE u24le PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
DE u32be PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
DE u32le PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
DE u8 PCM unsigned 8-bit
E uncodedframecrc uncoded framecrc testing
D v210 Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
D v210x Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
D vag Sony PS2 VAG
DE vc1 raw VC-1 video
DE vc1test VC-1 test bitstream
E vcd MPEG-1 Systems / MPEG program stream (VCD)
DE vidc PCM Archimedes VIDC
D vividas Vividas VIV
D vivo Vivo
D vmd Sierra VMD
E vob MPEG-2 PS (VOB)
D vobsub VobSub subtitle format
DE voc Creative Voice
D vpk Sony PS2 VPK
D vplayer VPlayer subtitles
D vqf Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
DE w64 Sony Wave64
DE wav WAV / WAVE (Waveform Audio)
D wc3movie Wing Commander III movie
E webm WebM
E webm_chunk WebM Chunk Muxer
DE webm_dash_manifest WebM DASH Manifest
E webp WebP
D webp_pipe piped webp sequence
DE webvtt WebVTT subtitle
D wsaud Westwood Studios audio
D wsd Wideband Single-bit Data (WSD)
D wsvqa Westwood Studios VQA
DE wtv Windows Television (WTV)
DE wv raw WavPack
D wve Psion 3 audio
D xa Maxis XA
D xbin eXtended BINary text (XBIN)
D xmv Microsoft XMV
D xpm_pipe piped xpm sequence
D xvag Sony PS3 XVAG
D xwd_pipe piped xwd sequence
D xwma Microsoft xWMA
D yop Psygnosis YOP
DE yuv4mpegpipe YUV4MPEG pipe
Since codecs are the backbone of FFMPEG, it is beneficial to know how to access the full list of supported codecs. The command is as follows:
$ ffmpeg -codecs
Be aware that the output from this command will show hundreds of codecs for both audio and video. For the full list of supported codecs, refer to the section TBD in the back of this book.
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As of March 25th, 2019
Codecs:
D..... = Decoding supported
.E.... = Encoding supported
..V... = Video codec
..A... = Audio codec
..S... = Subtitle codec
...I.. = Intra frame-only codec
....L. = Lossy compression
.....S = Lossless compression
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D.VI.S 012v Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
D.V.L. 4xm 4X Movie
D.VI.S 8bps QuickTime 8BPS video
.EVIL. a64_multi Multicolor charset for Commodore 64 (encoders: a64multi )
.EVIL. a64_multi5 Multicolor charset for Commodore 64, extended with 5th color (colram) (encoders: a64multi5 )
D.V..S aasc Autodesk RLE
D.V.L. agm Amuse Graphics Movie
D.VIL. aic Apple Intermediate Codec
DEVI.S alias_pix Alias/Wavefront PIX image
DEVIL. amv AMV Video
D.V.L. anm Deluxe Paint Animation
D.V.L. ansi ASCII/ANSI art
DEV..S apng APNG (Animated Portable Network Graphics) image
D.V.L. arbc Gryphon's Anim Compressor
DEVIL. asv1 ASUS V1
DEVIL. asv2 ASUS V2
D.VIL. aura Auravision AURA
D.VIL. aura2 Auravision Aura 2
DEV.L. av1 Alliance for Open Media AV1 (decoders: libaom-av1 ) (encoders: libaom-av1 )
D.V... avrn Avid AVI Codec
DEVI.S avrp Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer
D.V.L. avs AVS (Audio Video Standard) video
..V.L. avs2 AVS2-P2/IEEE1857.4
DEVI.S avui Avid Meridien Uncompressed
DEVI.S ayuv Uncompressed packed MS 4:4:4:4
D.V.L. bethsoftvid Bethesda VID video
D.V.L. bfi Brute Force & Ignorance
D.V.L. binkvideo Bink video
D.VI.. bintext Binary text
D.VI.S bitpacked Bitpacked
DEVI.S bmp BMP (Windows and OS/2 bitmap)
D.V..S bmv_video Discworld II BMV video
D.VI.S brender_pix BRender PIX image
D.V.L. c93 Interplay C93
D.V.L. cavs Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard) (AVS1-P2, JiZhun profile)
D.V.L. cdgraphics CD Graphics video
D.VIL. cdxl Commodore CDXL video
D.V.L. cfhd Cineform HD
DEV.L. cinepak Cinepak
D.V.L. clearvideo Iterated Systems ClearVideo
DEVIL. cljr Cirrus Logic AccuPak
D.VI.S cllc Canopus Lossless Codec
D.V.L. cmv Electronic Arts CMV video (decoders: eacmv )
D.V... cpia CPiA video format
D.V..S cscd CamStudio (decoders: camstudio )
D.VIL. cyuv Creative YUV (CYUV)
..V.LS daala Daala
D.VILS dds DirectDraw Surface image decoder
D.V.L. dfa Chronomaster DFA
DEV.LS dirac Dirac (encoders: vc2 )
DEVIL. dnxhd VC3/DNxHD
DEVI.S dpx DPX (Digital Picture Exchange) image
D.V.L. dsicinvideo Delphine Software International CIN video
DEVIL. dvvideo DV (Digital Video)
D.V..S dxa Feeble Files/ScummVM DXA
D.VI.S dxtory Dxtory
D.VIL. dxv Resolume DXV
D.V.L. escape124 Escape 124
D.V.L. escape130 Escape 130
D.VILS exr OpenEXR image
DEV..S ffv1 FFmpeg video codec #1
DEVI.S ffvhuff Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
D.V.L. fic Mirillis FIC
DEVI.S fits FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
DEV..S flashsv Flash Screen Video v1
DEV.L. flashsv2 Flash Screen Video v2
D.V..S flic Autodesk Animator Flic video
DEV.L. flv1 FLV / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263 (Flash Video) (decoders: flv ) (encoders: flv )
D.V..S fmvc FM Screen Capture Codec
D.VI.S fraps Fraps
D.VI.S frwu Forward Uncompressed
D.V.L. g2m Go2Meeting
D.V.L. gdv Gremlin Digital Video
DEV..S gif CompuServe GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
DEV.L. h261 H.261
DEV.L. h263 H.263 / H.263-1996, H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
D.V.L. h263i Intel H.263
DEV.L. h263p H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
DEV.LS h264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (encoders: libx264 libx264rgb h264_videotoolbox )
DEVIL. hap Vidvox Hap
DEV.L. hevc H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) (encoders: libx265 hevc_videotoolbox )
D.V.L. hnm4video HNM 4 video
D.VIL. hq_hqa Canopus HQ/HQA
D.VIL. hqx Canopus HQX
DEVI.S huffyuv HuffYUV
D.VI.S hymt HuffYUV MT
D.V.L. idcin id Quake II CIN video (decoders: idcinvideo )
D.VI.. idf iCEDraw text
D.V.L. iff_ilbm IFF ACBM/ANIM/DEEP/ILBM/PBM/RGB8/RGBN (decoders: iff )
D.V.L. imm4 Infinity IMM4
D.V.L. indeo2 Intel Indeo 2
D.V.L. indeo3 Intel Indeo 3
D.V.L. indeo4 Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4
D.V.L. indeo5 Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
D.V.L. interplayvideo Interplay MVE video
DEVILS jpeg2000 JPEG 2000 (decoders: jpeg2000 libopenjpeg ) (encoders: jpeg2000 libopenjpeg )
DEVILS jpegls JPEG-LS
D.VIL. jv Bitmap Brothers JV video
D.V.L. kgv1 Kega Game Video
D.V.L. kmvc Karl Morton's video codec
D.VI.S lagarith Lagarith lossless
.EVI.S ljpeg Lossless JPEG
D.VI.S loco LOCO
D.V.L. lscr LEAD Screen Capture
D.VI.S m101 Matrox Uncompressed SD
D.V.L. mad Electronic Arts Madcow Video (decoders: eamad )
DEVI.S magicyuv MagicYUV video
D.VIL. mdec Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DECoder)
D.V.L. mimic Mimic
DEVIL. mjpeg Motion JPEG
D.VIL. mjpegb Apple MJPEG-B
D.V.L. mmvideo American Laser Games MM Video
D.V.L. motionpixels Motion Pixels video
DEV.L. mpeg1video MPEG-1 video
DEV.L. mpeg2video MPEG-2 video (decoders: mpeg2video mpegvideo )
DEV.L. mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 (encoders: mpeg4 libxvid )
D.V.L. msa1 MS ATC Screen
D.VI.S mscc Mandsoft Screen Capture Codec
D.V.L. msmpeg4v1 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
DEV.L. msmpeg4v2 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
DEV.L. msmpeg4v3 MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3 (decoders: msmpeg4 ) (encoders: msmpeg4 )
D.V..S msrle Microsoft RLE
D.V.L. mss1 MS Screen 1
D.VIL. mss2 MS Windows Media Video V9 Screen
DEV.L. msvideo1 Microsoft Video 1
D.VI.S mszh LCL (LossLess Codec Library) MSZH
D.V.L. mts2 MS Expression Encoder Screen
D.VIL. mvc1 Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1
D.VIL. mvc2 Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 2
D.V..S mwsc MatchWare Screen Capture Codec
D.V.L. mxpeg Mobotix MxPEG video
D.V.L. nuv NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
D.V.L. paf_video Amazing Studio Packed Animation File Video
DEVI.S pam PAM (Portable AnyMap) image
DEVI.S pbm PBM (Portable BitMap) image
DEVI.S pcx PC Paintbrush PCX image
DEVI.S pgm PGM (Portable GrayMap) image
DEVI.S pgmyuv PGMYUV (Portable GrayMap YUV) image
D.VIL. pictor Pictor/PC Paint
D.VIL. pixlet Apple Pixlet
DEV..S png PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image
DEVI.S ppm PPM (Portable PixelMap) image
DEVIL. prores Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro) (encoders: prores prores_aw prores_ks )
D.VIL. prosumer Brooktree ProSumer Video
D.VI.S psd Photoshop PSD file
D.VIL. ptx V.Flash PTX image
D.VI.S qdraw Apple QuickDraw
D.V.L. qpeg Q-team QPEG
DEV..S qtrle QuickTime Animation (RLE) video
DEVI.S r10k AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
DEVI.S r210 Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
D.V.L. rasc RemotelyAnywhere Screen Capture
DEVI.S rawvideo raw video
D.VIL. rl2 RL2 video
DEV.L. roq id RoQ video (decoders: roqvideo ) (encoders: roqvideo )
D.V.L. rpza QuickTime video (RPZA)
D.V..S rscc innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec
DEV.L. rv10 RealVideo 1.0
DEV.L. rv20 RealVideo 2.0
D.V.L. rv30 RealVideo 3.0
D.V.L. rv40 RealVideo 4.0
D.V.L. sanm LucasArts SANM/SMUSH video
D.V.LS scpr ScreenPressor
D.V..S screenpresso Screenpresso
DEVI.S sgi SGI image
D.VI.S sgirle SGI RLE 8-bit
D.VI.S sheervideo BitJazz SheerVideo
D.V.L. smackvideo Smacker video (decoders: smackvid )
D.V.L. smc QuickTime Graphics (SMC)
D.V... smvjpeg Sigmatel Motion Video
DEV.LS snow Snow
D.VIL. sp5x Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
D.VIL. speedhq NewTek SpeedHQ
D.VI.S srgc Screen Recorder Gold Codec
DEVI.S sunrast Sun Rasterfile image
..V..S svg Scalable Vector Graphics
DEV.L. svq1 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 1 / Sorenson Video 1 / SVQ1
D.V.L. svq3 Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 / Sorenson Video 3 / SVQ3
DEVI.S targa Truevision Targa image
D.VI.S targa_y216 Pinnacle TARGA CineWave YUV16
D.V.L. tdsc TDSC
D.V.L. tgq Electronic Arts TGQ video (decoders: eatgq )
D.V.L. tgv Electronic Arts TGV video (decoders: eatgv )
DEV.L. theora Theora (encoders: libtheora )
D.VIL. thp Nintendo Gamecube THP video
D.V.L. tiertexseqvideo Tiertex Limited SEQ video
DEVI.S tiff TIFF image
D.VIL. tmv 8088flex TMV
D.V.L. tqi Electronic Arts TQI video (decoders: eatqi )
D.V.L. truemotion1 Duck TrueMotion 1.0
D.V.L. truemotion2 Duck TrueMotion 2.0
D.VIL. truemotion2rt Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time
D.V..S tscc TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (decoders: camtasia )
D.V.L. tscc2 TechSmith Screen Codec 2
D.VIL. txd Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image
D.V.L. ulti IBM UltiMotion (decoders: ultimotion )
DEVI.S utvideo Ut Video
DEVI.S v210 Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
D.VI.S v210x Uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit
DEVI.S v308 Uncompressed packed 4:4:4
DEVI.S v408 Uncompressed packed QT 4:4:4:4
DEVI.S v410 Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit
D.V.L. vb Beam Software VB
D.VI.S vble VBLE Lossless Codec
D.V.L. vc1 SMPTE VC-1
D.V.L. vc1image Windows Media Video 9 Image v2
D.VIL. vcr1 ATI VCR1
D.VIL. vixl Miro VideoXL (decoders: xl )
D.V.L. vmdvideo Sierra VMD video
D.V..S vmnc VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
D.V.L. vp3 On2 VP3
D.V.L. vp4 On2 VP4
D.V.L. vp5 On2 VP5
D.V.L. vp6 On2 VP6
D.V.L. vp6a On2 VP6 (Flash version, with alpha channel)
D.V.L. vp6f On2 VP6 (Flash version)
D.V.L. vp7 On2 VP7
DEV.L. vp8 On2 VP8 (decoders: vp8 libvpx ) (encoders: libvpx )
DEV.L. vp9 Google VP9 (decoders: vp9 libvpx-vp9 ) (encoders: libvpx-vp9 )
D.V..S wcmv WinCAM Motion Video
DEVILS webp WebP (encoders: libwebp_anim libwebp )
DEV.L. wmv1 Windows Media Video 7
DEV.L. wmv2 Windows Media Video 8
D.V.L. wmv3 Windows Media Video 9
D.V.L. wmv3image Windows Media Video 9 Image
D.VIL. wnv1 Winnov WNV1
DEV..S wrapped_avframe AVFrame to AVPacket passthrough
D.V.L. ws_vqa Westwood Studios VQA (Vector Quantized Animation) video (decoders: vqavideo )
D.V.L. xan_wc3 Wing Commander III / Xan
D.V.L. xan_wc4 Wing Commander IV / Xxan
D.VI.. xbin eXtended BINary text
DEVI.S xbm XBM (X BitMap) image
DEVIL. xface X-face image
D.VI.S xpm XPM (X PixMap) image
DEVI.S xwd XWD (X Window Dump) image
DEVI.S y41p Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
D.VI.S ylc YUY2 Lossless Codec
D.V.L. yop Psygnosis YOP Video
DEVI.S yuv4 Uncompressed packed 4:2:0
D.V..S zerocodec ZeroCodec Lossless Video
DEVI.S zlib LCL (LossLess Codec Library) ZLIB
DEV..S zmbv Zip Motion Blocks Video
..A.L. 4gv 4GV (Fourth Generation Vocoder)
D.A.L. 8svx_exp 8SVX exponential
D.A.L. 8svx_fib 8SVX fibonacci
DEA.L. aac AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) (decoders: aac aac_fixed aac_at ) (encoders: aac aac_at )
D.A.L. aac_latm AAC LATM (Advanced Audio Coding LATM syntax)
DEA.L. ac3 ATSC A/52A (AC-3) (decoders: ac3 ac3_fixed ac3_at ) (encoders: ac3 ac3_fixed )
D.A.L. adpcm_4xm ADPCM 4X Movie
DEA.L. adpcm_adx SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
D.A.L. adpcm_afc ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube AFC
D.A.L. adpcm_agm ADPCM AmuseGraphics Movie AGM
D.A.L. adpcm_aica ADPCM Yamaha AICA
D.A.L. adpcm_ct ADPCM Creative Technology
D.A.L. adpcm_dtk ADPCM Nintendo Gamecube DTK
D.A.L. adpcm_ea ADPCM Electronic Arts
D.A.L. adpcm_ea_maxis_xa ADPCM Electronic Arts Maxis CDROM XA
D.A.L. adpcm_ea_r1 ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
D.A.L. adpcm_ea_r2 ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
D.A.L. adpcm_ea_r3 ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
D.A.L. adpcm_ea_xas ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
DEA.L. adpcm_g722 G.722 ADPCM (decoders: g722 ) (encoders: g722 )
DEA.L. adpcm_g726 G.726 ADPCM (decoders: g726 ) (encoders: g726 )
DEA.L. adpcm_g726le G.726 ADPCM little-endian (decoders: g726le ) (encoders: g726le )
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_amv ADPCM IMA AMV
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_apc ADPCM IMA CRYO APC
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_dat4 ADPCM IMA Eurocom DAT4
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_dk3 ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_dk4 ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_ea_eacs ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_ea_sead ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts SEAD
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_iss ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_oki ADPCM IMA Dialogic OKI
DEA.L. adpcm_ima_qt ADPCM IMA QuickTime (decoders: adpcm_ima_qt adpcm_ima_qt_at )
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_rad ADPCM IMA Radical
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_smjpeg ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJPEG
DEA.L. adpcm_ima_wav ADPCM IMA WAV
D.A.L. adpcm_ima_ws ADPCM IMA Westwood
DEA.L. adpcm_ms ADPCM Microsoft
D.A.L. adpcm_mtaf ADPCM MTAF
D.A.L. adpcm_psx ADPCM Playstation
D.A.L. adpcm_sbpro_2 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2-bit
D.A.L. adpcm_sbpro_3 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 2.6-bit
D.A.L. adpcm_sbpro_4 ADPCM Sound Blaster Pro 4-bit
DEA.L. adpcm_swf ADPCM Shockwave Flash
D.A.L. adpcm_thp ADPCM Nintendo THP
D.A.L. adpcm_thp_le ADPCM Nintendo THP (Little-Endian)
D.A.L. adpcm_vima LucasArts VIMA audio
D.A.L. adpcm_xa ADPCM CDROM XA
DEA.L. adpcm_yamaha ADPCM Yamaha
DEAI.S alac ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) (decoders: alac alac_at ) (encoders: alac alac_at )
DEA.L. amr_nb AMR-NB (Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand) (decoders: amrnb amr_nb_at libopencore_amrnb ) (encoders: libopencore_amrnb )
D.A.L. amr_wb AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate WideBand) (decoders: amrwb libopencore_amrwb )
D.A..S ape Monkey's Audio
DEA.L. aptx aptX (Audio Processing Technology for Bluetooth)
DEA.L. aptx_hd aptX HD (Audio Processing Technology for Bluetooth)
D.A.L. atrac1 ATRAC1 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding)
D.A.L. atrac3 ATRAC3 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3)
D.A..S atrac3al ATRAC3 AL (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3 Advanced Lossless)
D.A.L. atrac3p ATRAC3+ (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3+) (decoders: atrac3plus )
D.A..S atrac3pal ATRAC3+ AL (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3+ Advanced Lossless) (decoders: atrac3plusal )
D.A.L. atrac9 ATRAC9 (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 9)
D.A.L. avc On2 Audio for Video Codec (decoders: on2avc )
D.A.L. binkaudio_dct Bink Audio (DCT)
D.A.L. binkaudio_rdft Bink Audio (RDFT)
D.A.L. bmv_audio Discworld II BMV audio
..A.L. celt Constrained Energy Lapped Transform (CELT)
..A.L. codec2 codec2 (very low bitrate speech codec)
DEA.L. comfortnoise RFC 3389 Comfort Noise
D.A.L. cook Cook / Cooker / Gecko (RealAudio G2)
D.A.L. dolby_e Dolby E
D.A.L. dsd_lsbf DSD (Direct Stream Digital), least significant bit first
D.A.L. dsd_lsbf_planar DSD (Direct Stream Digital), least significant bit first, planar
D.A.L. dsd_msbf DSD (Direct Stream Digital), most significant bit first
D.A.L. dsd_msbf_planar DSD (Direct Stream Digital), most significant bit first, planar
D.A.L. dsicinaudio Delphine Software International CIN audio
D.A.L. dss_sp Digital Speech Standard - Standard Play mode (DSS SP)
D.A..S dst DST (Direct Stream Transfer)
DEA.LS dts DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics) (decoders: dca ) (encoders: dca )
D.A.L. dvaudio DV audio
DEA.L. eac3 ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3) (decoders: eac3 eac3_at )
D.A.L. evrc EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate Codec)
DEAI.S flac FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
DEA.L. g723_1 G.723.1
D.A.L. g729 G.729
D.A.L. gremlin_dpcm DPCM Gremlin
D.A.L. gsm GSM
D.A.L. gsm_ms GSM Microsoft variant (decoders: gsm_ms gsm_ms_at )
D.A.L. hcom HCOM Audio
D.A.L. iac IAC (Indeo Audio Coder)
DEA.L. ilbc iLBC (Internet Low Bitrate Codec) (decoders: ilbc ilbc_at ) (encoders: ilbc_at )
D.A.L. imc IMC (Intel Music Coder)
D.A.L. interplay_dpcm DPCM Interplay
D.A.L. interplayacm Interplay ACM
D.A.L. mace3 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
D.A.L. mace6 MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1
D.A.L. metasound Voxware MetaSound
DEA..S mlp MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing)
D.A.L. mp1 MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1) (decoders: mp1 mp1float mp1_at )
DEA.L. mp2 MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2) (decoders: mp2 mp2float mp2_at ) (encoders: mp2 mp2fixed )
DEA.L. mp3 MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) (decoders: mp3float mp3 mp3_at ) (encoders: libmp3lame )
D.A.L. mp3adu ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) (decoders: mp3adufloat mp3adu )
D.A.L. mp3on4 MP3onMP4 (decoders: mp3on4float mp3on4 )
D.A..S mp4als MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) (decoders: als )
D.A.L. musepack7 Musepack SV7 (decoders: mpc7 )
D.A.L. musepack8 Musepack SV8 (decoders: mpc8 )
DEA.L. nellymoser Nellymoser Asao
DEA.L. opus Opus (Opus Interactive Audio Codec) (decoders: opus libopus ) (encoders: opus libopus )
D.A.L. paf_audio Amazing Studio Packed Animation File Audio
DEA.L. pcm_alaw PCM A-law / G.711 A-law (decoders: pcm_alaw pcm_alaw_at ) (encoders: pcm_alaw pcm_alaw_at )
D.A..S pcm_bluray PCM signed 16|20|24-bit big-endian for Blu-ray media
DEA..S pcm_dvd PCM signed 20|24-bit big-endian
D.A..S pcm_f16le PCM 16.8 floating point little-endian
D.A..S pcm_f24le PCM 24.0 floating point little-endian
DEA..S pcm_f32be PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian
DEA..S pcm_f32le PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian
DEA..S pcm_f64be PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian
DEA..S pcm_f64le PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian
D.A..S pcm_lxf PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar
DEA.L. pcm_mulaw PCM mu-law / G.711 mu-law (decoders: pcm_mulaw pcm_mulaw_at ) (encoders: pcm_mulaw pcm_mulaw_at )
DEA..S pcm_s16be PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_s16be_planar PCM signed 16-bit big-endian planar
DEA..S pcm_s16le PCM signed 16-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_s16le_planar PCM signed 16-bit little-endian planar
DEA..S pcm_s24be PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_s24daud PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24-bit
DEA..S pcm_s24le PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_s24le_planar PCM signed 24-bit little-endian planar
DEA..S pcm_s32be PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_s32le PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_s32le_planar PCM signed 32-bit little-endian planar
DEA..S pcm_s64be PCM signed 64-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_s64le PCM signed 64-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_s8 PCM signed 8-bit
DEA..S pcm_s8_planar PCM signed 8-bit planar
DEA..S pcm_u16be PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_u16le PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_u24be PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_u24le PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_u32be PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
DEA..S pcm_u32le PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
DEA..S pcm_u8 PCM unsigned 8-bit
DEA.L. pcm_vidc PCM Archimedes VIDC
D.A.L. pcm_zork PCM Zork
D.A.L. qcelp QCELP / PureVoice
D.A.L. qdm2 QDesign Music Codec 2 (decoders: qdm2 qdm2_at )
D.A.L. qdmc QDesign Music (decoders: qdmc qdmc_at )
DEA.L. ra_144 RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) (decoders: real_144 ) (encoders: real_144 )
D.A.L. ra_288 RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K) (decoders: real_288 )
D.A..S ralf RealAudio Lossless
DEA.L. roq_dpcm DPCM id RoQ
DEA..S s302m SMPTE 302M
DEA.L. sbc SBC (low-complexity subband codec)
D.A.L. sdx2_dpcm DPCM Squareroot-Delta-Exact
D.A..S shorten Shorten
D.A.L. sipr RealAudio SIPR / ACELP.NET
D.A.L. smackaudio Smacker audio (decoders: smackaud )
..A.L. smv SMV (Selectable Mode Vocoder)
D.A.L. sol_dpcm DPCM Sol
DEA... sonic Sonic
.EA... sonicls Sonic lossless
DEA.L. speex Speex (decoders: libspeex ) (encoders: libspeex )
D.AI.S tak TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor)
DEA..S truehd TrueHD
D.A.L. truespeech DSP Group TrueSpeech
DEAI.S tta TTA (True Audio)
D.A.L. twinvq VQF TwinVQ
D.A.L. vmdaudio Sierra VMD audio
DEA.L. vorbis Vorbis (decoders: vorbis libvorbis ) (encoders: vorbis libvorbis )
D.A... wavesynth Wave synthesis pseudo-codec
DEAILS wavpack WavPack
D.A.L. westwood_snd1 Westwood Audio (SND1) (decoders: ws_snd1 )
D.A..S wmalossless Windows Media Audio Lossless
D.A.L. wmapro Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
DEA.L. wmav1 Windows Media Audio 1
DEA.L. wmav2 Windows Media Audio 2
D.A.L. wmavoice Windows Media Audio Voice
D.A.L. xan_dpcm DPCM Xan
D.A.L. xma1 Xbox Media Audio 1
D.A.L. xma2 Xbox Media Audio 2
..D... bin_data binary data
..D... dvd_nav_packet DVD Nav packet
..D... klv SMPTE 336M Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata
..D... otf OpenType font
..D... scte_35 SCTE 35 Message Queue
..D... timed_id3 timed ID3 metadata
..D... ttf TrueType font
..S... arib_caption ARIB STD-B24 caption
DES... ass ASS (Advanced SSA) subtitle (decoders: ssa ass ) (encoders: ssa ass )
DES... dvb_subtitle DVB subtitles (decoders: dvbsub ) (encoders: dvbsub )
..S... dvb_teletext DVB teletext
DES... dvd_subtitle DVD subtitles (decoders: dvdsub ) (encoders: dvdsub )
D.S... eia_608 EIA-608 closed captions (decoders: cc_dec )
D.S... hdmv_pgs_subtitle HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles (decoders: pgssub )
..S... hdmv_text_subtitle HDMV Text subtitle
D.S... jacosub JACOsub subtitle
D.S... microdvd MicroDVD subtitle
DES... mov_text MOV text
D.S... mpl2 MPL2 subtitle
D.S... pjs PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society) subtitle
D.S... realtext RealText subtitle
D.S... sami SAMI subtitle
..S... srt SubRip subtitle with embedded timing
..S... ssa SSA (SubStation Alpha) subtitle
D.S... stl Spruce subtitle format
DES... subrip SubRip subtitle (decoders: srt subrip ) (encoders: srt subrip )
D.S... subviewer SubViewer subtitle
D.S... subviewer1 SubViewer v1 subtitle
DES... text raw UTF-8 text
..S... ttml Timed Text Markup Language
D.S... vplayer VPlayer subtitle
DES... webvtt WebVTT subtitle
DES... xsub XSUB
Command line one-liners are great for quick and one off FFMPEG experiences but sooner or later you’re going to want to start building custom applications for efficiency. FFMPEG can be used with almost any programming language with a couple of simple tricks. Some languages might even have libraries of their own to extend FFMPEG natively. Below are a few examples of various languages using FFMPEG:
FFMPEG has hundreds of different codecs to edit, convert to and play from. In your journey to mastering FFMPEG you’ll face the word ‘codec’ so often that not understanding what one is, is a disservice to yourself.
Wikipedia explains a codec as:
“… a device or computer program which encodes or decodes a digital data stream or signal. A coder encodes a data stream or a signal for transmission or storage, possibly in encrypted form, and the decoder function reverses the encoding for playback or editing.”
This book focuses on the mp3 codec for audio and H.264 (x264) codec for video. Due to their popularity and ease of use with modern software there’s rarely a disadvantage to using these codecs. For example, it’s much easier to post a mp4 file with mpeg4 codec to Instagram than it is to upload an Apple mov video.
Codecs are not the container that makes up an mp4 but the encoded data to allow mp4 files to be understood by a computer.
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Build dependencies are great additions to FFMPEG that makes the program even more powerful. These dependencies link to 3rd party tools that extend functionality or even simplify some processes. In this book there are a couple of audio / video filters that require extra dependencies to be installed. Installation is as follows:
MacOS
As of March 19th, 2020, MacOS + homebrew install has disabled native dependencies support. Luckily, thanks to a discussion on github the current work around is as follows (install all available dependencies):
Linux users who want to configure extra dependencies are required to install from source, here’s an example of install dependencies, given from the FFMPEG wiki:
This is question 80 from my up and coming FFMPEG book, come join the mailing list to stay informed on more FFMPEG tutorials and announcements about the book. Here
Merging audio with FFMPEG is one of the most searched questions on the internet and couldn’t be any easier. The only difference is a txt file with a list of mp3 tracks must be made before the merging can begin. Below is an example list inside the file “file.txt”:
Remember when flash was a big thing? Well turns out there are still video players online that use Flash Live Video (flv) to stream video. If you run into these files from a download, you might be hard pressed to find a player that works for it. So converting to mp4 is ideal:
$ ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec libx264 output.mp4
NOTE: You’ll notice in this example, we had to specify a -vcodec libx264, this is good practice as the default codec (mpeg4 on some machines) for mp4 conversions might downgrade video quality.
Luckily, that’s all it takes to convert FLV to MP4. Extremely easy and quick.
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¶Posted 13 March 2020†jdriselvato§Programming‡Comments Off on (FFmpeg) How to convert FLV to MP4?°Tagged: FFmpeg
In December of 2019, I had this idea to take japanese commercials from 1980 to 2001 and turn them into a book. The idea was simple, paint a new story with minimal changes in frame order but sparks a new emotion in a comic book format. A 30 second video might have 720 frames to tell a story. A book of visual signalwave takes a handful to tell a new one.
The initial idea was give this to the Musics the Hang UpPatreon supporters as a thank you for their support. I made the books at a small book printing shop near XiaMeiLing, China. 12 of them and shipped them back to the USA. Christmas came around, I gave away this free book and for another 2 months sat on it.
Then in February, I started getting into the flipping game on ebay but the income wasn’t as fast as I’d like. So it hit me, digital goods are so much easier to maintain, digital goods turned physical without dealing with shipping myself would be even better.
In the vaporwave scene, people love collecting physical media. For example, cassettes and vinyl in the scene are huge. So huge that some people don’t even have the means to play their music but the art and prestige of owning something from a limited release gets everyone off.
I’ve been in the vaporwave scene for over a year trying to figure out my niche as someone who doesn’t exactly produce music. I like the visual side of the scene. I like the smaller sub-genres (signalwave) even more.
So I did what made sense, and signed up with Amazon’s KDP to have them start producing my book. It was a quick process after I figured out all the book conversion stuff and February 28th, I went live with the book.
The first day sales were ok, but on March 4th things exploded. A Japanese blog picked up on the book, wrote a post about it and by the end of the day had over 300 retweets, likes and comments. This would be the first time I’d ever have a new outlet write about anything I’ve created.
「A Book of Visual Signalwave」 Vaporwaveのサブジャンル”Signalwave”はテレビなどのメディアから発信される気象情報やコマーシャルといった情報を音楽とビジュアルの両面で体現したスタイルですが、本書はそんな”Signalwave”の魅力をビジュアル側から紹介したガイドブックhttps://t.co/kSEnGMggiOpic.twitter.com/4dyYgbuBLM
The following day, I get an email from Disk Union, a japanese book distributor / store, asking to purchase 100 books. Of course I agreed, made less than 100 USD off the sale, but I was on my way.
Now I write this proudly stating in the first 2 weeks, I’ve sold over 200 copies of the book and a new drive to write more. So I’m starting a new book project I’ve had in the back of my head for a while.
A book on FFMPEG, a video and audio editing terminal software. It’s formatted in a “100 Questions answered” type book. It’ll be a great reference book for anyone interested in taking their social media game up to the next level.
If this is something you’re interested in, please sign up for email alert to start up to date on the progress. The book will be releases in the next month, you’re not going to want to miss it.
Until then, check out my first published book, “A Book of Visual Signalwave” on Amazon:
¶Posted 13 March 2020†jdriselvato§Uncategorized‡Comments Off on ‘A Book of Visual Signalwave’ my first independent success°
