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// ffmpegcraft — ffmpeg reference
ffmpeg is the Swiss Army knife of multimedia: it can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play nearly any audio or video format. The basic syntax is:
• Use -c copy to remux without re-encoding (instant, lossless).
• Put -ssbefore-i for fast keyframe seek; after -i for frame-accurate seek.
• Chain filters with commas: -vf "scale=1280:-2,fps=30"
• Use -map 0 to include all streams from input 0.
• Two-pass encoding: run with -pass 1 -f null /dev/null then -pass 2 for best quality/size.
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• Always review the generated command before running it.
• Test on disposable files and directories first.
• If you do not understand what a flag does, look it up in the official manual page (man command).
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