FFmpeg Reviews & Product Details

It is easy and quick to use where you don't have to open another application to use it. As long as you're comfortable with using the command line, you can use it for audio and video compressions, conversions, and many other tasks available from their library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a learning curve with using the command lines to perform the tasks you want for your video or audio files. I regularly need to reference their documentation or look up the syntax of the commands to perform the tasks I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can do almost anything you want. A lot of other products are based on this piece of software. And it's free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With great power comes great responsibility. The CLI that offers may sometimes be confusing for users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ffmpeg commands can be simple for some tasks.

All in one - great capabilities.

Logs enabled.

media solution.

Can make a business.

Documentation.

I like some key functionalities like:

Encoding with whatever configs.

Used for preparing an adaptive VOD and live streaming solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Technical barrier.

Does not support testing hls.

It does not recommend VOD configs for encoding many resolutions.

Some parts of the documentation can be hard to get.

It does not contain Second Layer of commands over its commands to simplify business tasks for non-professionals. (another set of prepared commands for simplicity).

Ffmpeg documentation does not contain the best educating materials of setting media configuration. These materials are found on some streaming platforms.

I did not find a community that I engaged in and got help from.

I did not get a chance to work with this tool more in some other job, so it was not a great thing on the CV that I benefited from in my career. This is related not to this tool, but to its usage in software companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FFMPEG is the perfect tool for working with media files, it lends itself as a multi-functional tool offering almost everything (Media compression, Media file type conversion etc etc). Iv used FFMPEG personally to take media streams and prepare them for real time streaming and iv used this tool to compress files with huge data sizes to files with pretty small sizes (something like 800MB to 20MB) after rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downsides to using FFMPEG are pretty small, namely it has a little bit of a steep learning curve and it has a CLI. So that might scare most beginners from using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the community and the many examples that ffmpeg has. I used ffmpeg for many years as a developer, I created a player and an encoder by using the library. During my Ph.D I also used ffmpeg to create videos. You can always find a solution to do what you need, sometimes it is not easy to create the list of arguments used in the command line version but with the help of the users (stackoverflow, documentation, and examples) you can reproduce what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my personal experience I found that compiling the library on Windows OS is a little bit complicated. You have to set up a lot of stuff and when an error occurs you don't know what is the step of the pipeline that breaks the compile process. I would like to have a simplified process where a Visual Studio project is released with ffmpeg. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ffmpeg is a Swiss-knife for AV developers. It can transcode and trans package AV data in almost any formats. The tools that come with it are very handy too.

It’s portability also makes a strong candidate for writing mobile applications.

Hardware acceleration support is widespread too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of application framework features is something that ffmpeg can improve on. But I think gstreamer is a much better multimedia framework

Not having an object oriented wrapper around it is also they can work on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful has to be diversity and ways it can be useful in so many cases. Ive been working in encoding sector for a while, and even with access to insanely priced tools/software, there are only few features that aren't accessable with FFMPEG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say that I dislike something per say, although I am struggling when I have to suggest FFMPEG to someone, who might not be used to using a terminal. In other words it would be huge if a cross platform app would pop up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FFmpeg uses most of the audio/video file formats and can convert it to .mpg, .mkv, .avi, .mp4 and many other formats, which is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FFmpeg has so many options and utilities to use which sometimes are confusing but these many options just tell us that the capabilities of the FFmpeg and what all things we can convert using FFmpeg. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used it for video editing, after using other paid software, like premiere pro. It is true that you need to get used to it, as it uses coding language - but you can find anything you need to in online tutorials (I could learn it with no previous coding experience). I specially like that it does not occupy much space in laptop, it is a complete new way of video editing, and it is super neat. It easily allows you to change video formats, extract or add audio, change quality of videos... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the beginning you will need to search in internet "hows to" because it does not have an intuitive interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support for almost all video and audio codes with hw acceleration as well to utilize the platform in the best way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lack of interfaces/options to interoperate with native libraries for memory-copy free media pipeline like vaapi, mediasdk, opengl Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.