What is FFmpeg? A Guide for Computer Vision Tasks.
Blog post from Roboflow
FFmpeg is a versatile, command-line tool widely used in digital media preprocessing for computer vision tasks, trusted by major platforms like VLC and YouTube. The guide provides an introduction to FFmpeg’s capabilities, such as converting video formats, splitting videos into frames, and merging video files, which are crucial for image and video analysis. It offers installation instructions for various operating systems and demonstrates specific FFmpeg commands for converting AVI to MP4, splitting videos into frames, and programmatically uploading these frames to Roboflow for training computer vision models. The article highlights the integration of FFmpeg with Python to automate the conversion and upload process, thereby streamlining dataset management for computer vision projects.