--- title: FFmpeg Reviews meta\_title: 'FFmpeg Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how FFmpeg works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 20 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-07-12' parent\_category: name: Video url: https://www.g2.com/categories/video --- # FFmpeg Reviews & Product Details FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. * * * Seller [FFmpeg](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ffmpeg) Discussions [FFmpeg Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ffmpeg/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 5 months ### Return on Investment 26 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ffmpeg/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Handbrake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Handbrake") Handbrake 4.7/5(155) ](https://www.g2.com/products/handbrake/reviews) [ ![VideoLan](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "VideoLan") VideoLan 4.7/5(629) ](https://www.g2.com/products/videolan/reviews) [ ![Compressor](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Compressor") Compressor 4.3/5(48) ](https://www.g2.com/products/compressor/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ffmpeg/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 20 real user reviews. Implementation Time 5 months [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) AT Angela T. Director of Creative Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/6/2022 "Easy to Use and More Control in Processing Video and Audio" 5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? 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. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: It can be intimidating to use if you're not used to running commands with the command line. But there is good documentation on the FFmpeg site to help with examples online if you search for how to do file compressions, conversions, and other tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? It has been helping me compress and optimize videos further than what I could previously do from other applications. It has been beneficial in getting video file sizes smaller for rich media ads since Chrome's ad interventions regarding ad weights have been introduced recently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/7/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![F. Javier P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "F. Javier P.") FP F. Javier P. Mobile Team Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/10/2021 "The swiss-knife of the video manipulation" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? With great power comes great responsibility. The CLI that offers may sometimes be confusing for users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm using it for transcoding videos (e.g., re-encode a video with other codec or other settings), for creating GIFs from MP4s, and for split videos. Also, for creating thumbnails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Salma T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Salma T.") ST Salma T. Full Stack Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/16/2020 "Without ffmpeg I would not have developed the VOD encoder!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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 functionities like: Encoding with whatever configs. Used for preparing an adaptive VOD and live streaming solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? 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 an 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 benifited from in my carear. This is related not to this tool, but to its usage in software companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: Ffmpeg tool is great for working with media. Its commands can be simple for simple work, but it is raw commands and has some technical barrier for challenging tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? Ffmpeg helped me develop a media encoder for VOD. Ffmpeg helped me get audio waveshape to display it on player. It helped in getting media info loockup in order to place media info in a CMS. I also used it for concatinating audio to repeat a song that I like! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chamika W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chamika W.") CW Chamika W. Freelance Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/19/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "FFMPEG experience" 5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? 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. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: FFMPEG definitely when you need to play around with media files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? Iv used FFMPEG in: 1. Lose less file compression 2. Media Streaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ameya T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ameya T.") AT Ameya T. Sr. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/10/2020 "The ultimate toolbox for audio video processing" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? 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. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: VLC is very good code to study and understand ffmpeg. Use gstreamer if you want to write multimedia application. It internally uses ffmpeg libs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? I used ffmpeg to store classification results along side frames in an mpeg2-ts format. That way, during playback, these results which were confidence values , could be used to mark important events in the video. Its API allowed me do almost anything with the data while still being standard compliant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Performing Arts](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Performing Arts") UP Verified User in Performing Arts Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/11/2021 "I was scared at first, as I am not a coder, but it is easy to use and very neat" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? 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. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? Video editing, such as adding or substracting audio from a piece, changing the format of the video (i.e. from .avi to .mp4), merging different video clips into a video, adding hard subtitles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ankit J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankit J.") AJ Ankit J. Software Engineer 1 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/20/2020 "I have used FFMPEG extensively for multimedia and video analytics applications." 5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? 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. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? 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. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: It is very versatile and easy to use set of APIs for a number of multimedia requirements. FFMPEG has a very detailed documentation and community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? Designing Media pipelines for digital signage solutions. FFMPEG provide a great level of modularization and API support for all the video processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Asaf K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Asaf K.") AK Asaf K. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/30/2020 "The right tool for video application" 5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? The best I liked with FFmpeg, is that it can decode any known source I ever see, and I know it will not disappoint me in future... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? Doesn't has a real support. Very hard to use mailing list Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: Take it! Itls de-facto tool for video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? I implement a decoder for h.264/HEVC based on media foundation transform, FFmpeg give me the ability of hardware acceleration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Oksana T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Oksana T.") OT Oksana T. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/29/2020 "video streams processing" 5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? Command Line Interface : ffmpeg , ffprobe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? the documentation contains few examples, so you often have to look for examples on the Internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: many examples and tips can be found on the Internet at sites: https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ffmpeg https://habr.com/ru/hub/video https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ffmpeg Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? video converting from mvk to mpg , splitting strime to frames, read video from stream save video, get metadata of videos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Media Production](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Media Production") UM Verified User in Media Production Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/14/2020 "FFmpeg, your way out of the codec hussle" 5/5 What do you like best about FFmpeg? Fast, easy to use, good documentation, feature complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FFmpeg? Commands can become very complex and long Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FFmpeg: If you are not afraid of the console and know a bit about codecs, this is the tool to automate video conversion tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FFmpeg solving and how is that benefiting you? Must have tool in the post production pipeline management or video heavy website backend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/14/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ## Questions about FFmpeg? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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