1. Generic options

These options are shared amongst the ff* tools.

-L

Show license.

-h, -?, -help, --help

Show help.

-version

Show version.

-formats

Show available formats.

The fields preceding the format names have the following meanings:

D

Decoding available

E

Encoding available

-codecs

Show available codecs.

The fields preceding the codec names have the following meanings:

D

Decoding available

E

Encoding available

V/A/S

Video/audio/subtitle codec

S

Codec supports slices

D

Codec supports direct rendering

T

Codec can handle input truncated at random locations instead of only at frame boundaries

-bsfs

Show available bitstream filters.

-protocols

Show available protocols.

-filters

Show available libavfilter filters.

-pix_fmts

Show available pixel formats.

-loglevel loglevel

Set the logging level used by the library. loglevel is a number or a string containing one of the following values:

quiet
panic
fatal
error
warning
info
verbose
debug

By default the program logs to stderr, if coloring is supported by the terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log coloring can be disabled setting the environment variable FFMPEG_FORCE_NOCOLOR or NO_COLOR, or can be forced setting the environment variable FFMPEG_FORCE_COLOR. The use of the environment variable NO_COLOR is deprecated and will be dropped in a following Libav version.



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