Normally, it’s a pain finding stream, codec or bitrate information for media files.
Get Codec and/or Stream Information of Media Files in Linux

Normally, it’s a pain finding stream, codec or bitrate information for media files.
HandBrake is not only great a great software for Linux, but also a great software that really works and works perfectly well. It is not normally available from standard repos but it compiles pretty painless from SVN. As soon as…
I have a nice camcorder from SONY in true HD (older, non-AVHCD) format, so I need an app for non-linear video editing. I’ve heard of Cinelerra but earlier installs I attempted were not very much stable, so I decided to…
The problem is seen well when you get video file information with ffmpeg:
The below are two single-line commands to encode a high quality mpeg file ready for writing to a DVD disk.
The below joins audio and video streams into one MPEG1 or 2 file.
Command line encoding of an input MPEG2 file into an mp4 format (XViD) in Linux.