We had a great LoCo team meeting Tuesday night.  We usually do.

The Ubuntu Global Jam is approaching, and in Florida organization is underway.  It looks like we may be able to hit my previously stated goal of having 5 Jams here in Florida.  So far we have definite plans in Gainesville and Orlando, and we have team members who have stepped up to start organizing in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale and Tampa.  Nothing to confirm on the last two yet, but we’re making headway.  We also have team members who have already started pre-planning for Lucid Release Parties!

With DrupalCamp, FOWA, BarCamp Orlando,  and BarCamp Miami coming up, in addition to our regular meetups and public service, its going to be a busy couple of months!

We’ll be out there advocating, installing, supporting, and learning!

Found this nice summary of ffmpeg commands on catswhocode.com:
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/19-ffmpeg-commands-for-all-needs

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Ffmpeg

Getting infos from a video file

ffmpeg -i video.avi

Turn X images to a video sequence

ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg

This command will transform all the images from the current
directory (named image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc…) to a video file named
video.mpg.

Turn a video to X images

ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg

This command will generate the files named image1.jpg, image2.jpg, …

The following image formats are also availables : PGM, PPM, PAM, PGMYUV, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, SGI.

Encode a video sequence for the iPpod/iPhone

ffmpeg -i source_video.avi input -acodec aac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title X final_video.mp4

Explanations :

• Source : source_video.avi
• Audio codec : aac
• Audio bitrate : 128kb/s
• Video codec : mpeg4
• Video bitrate : 1200kb/s
• Video size : 320px par 180px
• Generated video : final_video.mp4

Encode video for the PSP

ffmpeg -i source_video.avi -b 300 -s 320x240 -vcodec xvid -ab 32 -ar 24000 -acodec aac final_video.mp4

Explanations :

• Source : source_video.avi
• Audio codec : aac
• Audio bitrate : 32kb/s
• Video codec : xvid
• Video bitrate : 1200kb/s
• Video size : 320px par 180px
• Generated video : final_video.mp4

Extracting sound from a video, and save it as Mp3

ffmpeg -i source_video.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 sound.mp3

Explanations :

• Source video : source_video.avi
• Audio bitrate : 192kb/s
• output format : mp3
• Generated sound : sound.mp3

Convert a wav file to Mp3

ffmpeg -i son_origine.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 son_final.mp3

Convert .avi video to .mpg

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi video_finale.mpg

Convert .mpg to .avi

ffmpeg -i video_origine.mpg video_finale.avi

Convert .avi to animated gif(uncompressed)

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi gif_anime.gif

Mix a video with a sound file

ffmpeg -i son.wav -i video_origine.avi video_finale.mpg

Convert .avi to .flv

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -ab 56 -ar 44100 -b 200 -r 15 -s 320x240 -f flv video_finale.flv

Convert .avi to dv

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -s pal -r pal -aspect 4:3 -ar 48000 -ac 2 video_finale.dv

Or:

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -target pal-dv video_finale.dv

Convert .avi to mpeg for dvd players

ffmpeg -i source_video.avi -target pal-dvd -ps 2000000000 -aspect 16:9 finale_video.mpeg

Explanations :

• target pal-dvd : Output format
• ps 2000000000 maximum size for the output file, in bits (here, 2 Gb)
• aspect 16:9 : Widescreen

Compress .avi to divx

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -s 320x240 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 video_finale.avi

Compress Ogg Theora to Mpeg dvd

ffmpeg -i film_sortie_cinelerra.ogm -s 720x576 -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec mp3 film_terminée.mpg

Compress .avi to SVCD mpeg2

NTSC format:

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -target ntsc-svcd video_finale.mpg

PAL format:

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -target pal-svcd video_finale.mpg

Compress .avi to VCD mpeg2

NTSC format:

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -target ntsc-vcd video_finale.mpg

PAL format:

ffmpeg -i video_origine.avi -target pal-vcd video_finale.mpg

Multi-pass encoding with ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i fichierentree -pass 2 -passlogfile ffmpeg2pass fichiersortie-2

Due to work and a new baby I’ve been largely AFC (away from community) for the past 7 months or so. I’ve been minimally involved in community events, bug triaging, qa testing, etc, but nothing significant to speak of. Things are settling down now, and I can’t wait to get back into the ring! Some of my goals over the next few months: 5 events across Florida for the Global Jam, Pump Up Ubuntu-US, get more involved with server QA, and (finally) get started on becoming a MOTU Ubuntu Developer.

In more exciting developments, I want to send hearty congratulations to Christophe Sauthier (Huats)! A few days back he became the father of a gorgeous baby boy.  Wish you and your family all the best my friend!