Using FFmpeg in a Film Archive

Online on 24 November 2022 from 17:00 to 20:00 CET.

Organised by Adelheid Heftberger for the FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops.

The presenter is Reto Kromer.

Table of Contents

• Handouts
• Free and Open-Source Software
• Bibliography

Handouts

• On Audio-Visual File Formats (PDF, 5.3 MB)
• A Quiz on Audio-Visual File Formats (PDF, 63 KB)
• An Introduction to FFmpeg
• Exercise files (ZIP, 1.06 GB, MD5 = c2fdc0fc9290ebaa4757d69fadf3f38c)
• Used commands
• Answers to the Quiz on Audio-Visual File Formats (PDF, 51 KB)

Free and Open-Source Software

File Transformations

• ffmpeg (CLI)
• FFmpeg Cookbook for Archivists
• ffmprovisr (can be installed locally on your computers)
• FFCommand Engine (an FFmpeg GUI for macOS and Windows)

Metadata Extraction

• MediaInfo (GUI and CLI)
• ffprobe (CLI)

Media Players

• VLC media player (GUI)
• mpv (CLI and GUI)
• ffplay (CLI)

Bibliography

• Nicole Martin: What Is a Digital File?, 2020-09-14
• Agathe Jarczyk, Reto Kromer, Yves Niederhäuser and David Pfluger: Digital Archiving of Film and Video: Principles and Guidance, Version 1.2, Memoriav, Bern 2019
• Nicole Martin: Why Use the Command Line for Digital Archiving and Preservation?, 2020-06-21
• Ashley Blewer: Command Line Interface

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