FFmpeg CLI reference for video and audio processing, format conversion, filtering, and media automation. Use when converting video formats, resizing or cropping video, trimming by time, replacing or extracting audio, mixing audio tracks, overlaying text or images, burning subtitles, creating GIFs, generating thumbnails, building slideshows, changing playback speed, encoding with H264/H265/VP9, setting CRF/bitrate, using GPU acceleration, creating storyboards, or running ffprobe. Covers filter_complex, stream selectors, -map, -c copy, seeking, scale, pad, crop, concat, drawtext, zoompan, xfade.
Quickly install ffmpeg-cli AI skill to your development environment via command line
Open Terminal: Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.)
Run Installation Command: Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/henkisdabro/wookstar-claude-plugins --skill ffmpeg-cli
Verify Installation: Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
| -vf (also -filter:v) | Video filter | | -af (also -filter:a) | Audio filter | | -filtercomplex | Complex filter graph for multi-stream filtering | | [0] | All streams from first input (0-based) | | [0:v] | Video stream from first input | | [1:a] | Audio stream from second input | | 0:v:0 | First input, first video stream |
| 0:a:1 | First input, second audio stream | | [name] | Named stream, used with -filtercomplex | | -map [name] | Select stream for output | | -y | Auto-overwrite output files without confirmation |
MKV and MP4 are both containers for H264/H265 video and AAC/MP3 audio. Video quality is determined by the codec, not the container. MKV supports multiple video streams; MP4 has wider device support.
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FFmpeg CLI reference for video and audio processing, format conversion, filtering, and media automation. Use when converting video formats, resizing or cropping video, trimming by time, replacing or extracting audio, mixing audio tracks, overlaying text or images, burning subtitles, creating GIFs, generating thumbnails, building slideshows, changing playback speed, encoding with H264/H265/VP9, setting CRF/bitrate, using GPU acceleration, creating storyboards, or running ffprobe. Covers filter_complex, stream selectors, -map, -c copy, seeking, scale, pad, crop, concat, drawtext, zoompan, xfade. Source: henkisdabro/wookstar-claude-plugins.
How do I install ffmpeg-cli?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/henkisdabro/wookstar-claude-plugins --skill ffmpeg-cli Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw