4 Muxers are configured elements in FFmpeg which allow writing
5 multimedia streams to a particular type of file.
7 When you configure your FFmpeg build, all the supported muxers
8 are enabled by default. You can list all available muxers using the
9 configure option @code{--list-muxers}.
11 You can disable all the muxers with the configure option
12 @code{--disable-muxers} and selectively enable / disable single muxers
13 with the options @code{--enable-muxer=@var{MUXER}} /
14 @code{--disable-muxer=@var{MUXER}}.
16 The option @code{-formats} of the ff* tools will display the list of
19 A description of some of the currently available muxers follows.
24 CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) testing format.
26 This muxer computes and prints the Adler-32 CRC of all the input audio
27 and video frames. By default audio frames are converted to signed
28 16-bit raw audio and video frames to raw video before computing the
31 The output of the muxer consists of a single line of the form:
32 CRC=0x@var{CRC}, where @var{CRC} is a hexadecimal number 0-padded to
33 8 digits containing the CRC for all the decoded input frames.
35 For example to compute the CRC of the input, and store it in the file
38 ffmpeg -i INPUT -f crc out.crc
41 You can print the CRC to stdout with the command:
43 ffmpeg -i INPUT -f crc -
46 You can select the output format of each frame with @file{ffmpeg} by
47 specifying the audio and video codec and format. For example to
48 compute the CRC of the input audio converted to PCM unsigned 8-bit
49 and the input video converted to MPEG-2 video, use the command:
51 ffmpeg -i INPUT -acodec pcm_u8 -vcodec mpeg2video -f crc -
54 See also the @code{framecrc} muxer (@pxref{framecrc}).
59 Per-frame CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) testing format.
61 This muxer computes and prints the Adler-32 CRC for each decoded audio
62 and video frame. By default audio frames are converted to signed
63 16-bit raw audio and video frames to raw video before computing the
66 The output of the muxer consists of a line for each audio and video
67 frame of the form: @var{stream_index}, @var{frame_dts},
68 @var{frame_size}, 0x@var{CRC}, where @var{CRC} is a hexadecimal
69 number 0-padded to 8 digits containing the CRC of the decoded frame.
71 For example to compute the CRC of each decoded frame in the input, and
72 store it in the file @file{out.crc}:
74 ffmpeg -i INPUT -f framecrc out.crc
77 You can print the CRC of each decoded frame to stdout with the command:
79 ffmpeg -i INPUT -f framecrc -
82 You can select the output format of each frame with @file{ffmpeg} by
83 specifying the audio and video codec and format. For example, to
84 compute the CRC of each decoded input audio frame converted to PCM
85 unsigned 8-bit and of each decoded input video frame converted to
86 MPEG-2 video, use the command:
88 ffmpeg -i INPUT -acodec pcm_u8 -vcodec mpeg2video -f framecrc -
91 See also the @code{crc} muxer (@pxref{crc}).
97 This muxer writes video frames to multiple image files specified by a
100 The pattern may contain the string "%d" or "%0@var{N}d", which
101 specifies the position of the characters representing a numbering in
102 the filenames. If the form "%d0@var{N}d" is used, the string
103 representing the number in each filename is 0-padded to @var{N}
104 digits. The literal character '%' can be specified in the pattern with
107 If the pattern contains "%d" or "%0@var{N}d", the first filename of
108 the file list specified will contain the number 1, all the following
109 numbers will be sequential.
111 The pattern may contain a suffix which is used to automatically
112 determine the format of the image files to write.
114 For example the pattern "img-%03d.bmp" will specify a sequence of
115 filenames of the form @file{img-001.bmp}, @file{img-002.bmp}, ...,
116 @file{img-010.bmp}, etc.
117 The pattern "img%%-%d.jpg" will specify a sequence of filenames of the
118 form @file{img%-1.jpg}, @file{img%-2.jpg}, ..., @file{img%-10.jpg},
121 The following example shows how to use @file{ffmpeg} for creating a
122 sequence of files @file{img-001.jpeg}, @file{img-002.jpeg}, ...,
123 taking one image every second from the input video:
125 ffmpeg -i in.avi -r 1 -f image2 'img-%03d.jpeg'
128 Note that with @file{ffmpeg}, if the format is not specified with the
129 @code{-f} option and the output filename specifies an image file
130 format, the image2 muxer is automatically selected, so the previous
131 command can be written as:
133 ffmpeg -i in.avi -r 1 'img-%03d.jpeg'
136 Note also that the pattern must not necessarily contain "%d" or
137 "%0@var{N}d", for example to create a single image file
138 @file{img.jpeg} from the input video you can employ the command:
140 ffmpeg -i in.avi -f image2 -vframes 1 img.jpeg
145 MPEG transport stream muxer.
147 This muxer implements ISO 13818-1 and part of ETSI EN 300 468.
149 The muxer options are:
152 @item -mpegts_original_network_id @var{number}
153 Set the original_network_id (default 0x0001). This is unique identifier
154 of a network in DVB. Its main use is in the unique identification of a
155 service through the path Original_Network_ID, Transport_Stream_ID.
156 @item -mpegts_transport_stream_id @var{number}
157 Set the transport_stream_id (default 0x0001). This identifies a
159 @item -mpegts_service_id @var{number}
160 Set the service_id (default 0x0001) also known as program in DVB.
161 @item -mpegts_pmt_start_pid @var{number}
162 Set the first PID for PMT (default 0x1000, max 0x1f00).
163 @item -mpegts_start_pid @var{number}
164 Set the first PID for data packets (default 0x0100, max 0x0f00).
167 The recognized metadata settings in mpegts muxer are @code{service_provider}
168 and @code{service_name}. If they are not set the default for
169 @code{service_provider} is "FFmpeg" and the default for
170 @code{service_name} is "Service01".
173 ffmpeg -i file.mpg -acodec copy -vcodec copy \
174 -mpegts_original_network_id 0x1122 \
175 -mpegts_transport_stream_id 0x3344 \
176 -mpegts_service_id 0x5566 \
177 -mpegts_pmt_start_pid 0x1500 \
178 -mpegts_start_pid 0x150 \
179 -metadata service_provider="Some provider" \
180 -metadata service_name="Some Channel" \
188 This muxer does not generate any output file, it is mainly useful for
189 testing or benchmarking purposes.
191 For example to benchmark decoding with @file{ffmpeg} you can use the
194 ffmpeg -benchmark -i INPUT -f null out.null
197 Note that the above command does not read or write the @file{out.null}
198 file, but specifying the output file is required by the @file{ffmpeg}
201 Alternatively you can write the command as:
203 ffmpeg -benchmark -i INPUT -f null -