How to get the best quality when creating a webm with FFmpeg.

Rip a Youtube video to a good quality Webm with FFmpeg This very useful command will get a Youtube video and rip a certain timeframe from the video to a good quality WebM file. Create a Webm with FFmpeg. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ ╼ $ ffmpeg -ss 00:00:55 -to 00:01:05 -i `yt-dlp -g -f bestvideo GbPK2VCarvU` -threads … Read more

A very good mencoder command-line to rip a DVD in very good quality.

This long one-liner will rip a DVD in very good quality to an AVI file. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mencoder -passlogfile 2passlog.log -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1400:me_quality=6:chroma_me=1:nointerlacing:max_bframes=1:noqpel:hq_ac:trellis:quant_type=mpeg:chroma_opt:bvhq=1:vhq=4:autoaspect:pass=1:turbo -aid 128 -ofps 23.976 dvd:// -o evil_dead_movie.avi┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mencoder -passlogfile 2passlog.log -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1400:me_quality=6:chroma_me=1:nointerlacing:max_bframes=1:noqpel:hq_ac:trellis:quant_type=mpeg:chroma_opt:bvhq=1:vhq=4:autoaspect:pass=1:turbo -aid 128 -ofps 23.976 … Read more

How to rip subtitles from a movie file using ffmpeg.

Ripping the subtitles from a movie file is very easy, just use this command to rip the subs to a file for later perusal. Or to correct grammar and spelling/translation errors. ffmpeg -i BLADE_RUNNER_2049_WEB_DL_1080p-BLUEBIRD.mkv -map 0:s:0 subs.srtffmpeg -i BLADE_RUNNER_2049_WEB_DL_1080p-BLUEBIRD.mkv -map 0:s:0 subs.srt This rips the first subs track to a file called subs.srt. This is … Read more

Rip the audio from a video file the easy way with mplayer and convert it to an OGG file.

This post will show how to rip the audio from a video file to a wav and then convert that to an ogg file. This is very simple and easy to do. This long command will rip the audio from the file and save it in the out.wav file. localhost% mplayer -ao pcm:fast:file=out.wav -vo null … Read more

How to use mplayer to rip the sound from a video and create a wav file that you can encode with lame.

This is the command I just used to rip the audio from a movie and save it as a wav file. Then the lame command is used to encode the wav into an mp3 file. john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Music $ mplayer -ao pcm:fast:file=out.wav -vo null -vc null video.mp4 && lame -h -b 320 out.wavjohn@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Music $ mplayer … Read more