Using FFmpeg in a Film Archive

Online on 30 March 2023 from 17:00 to 20:00 CET.

Table of Contents

• Handouts
• Exercises
• Free and Open-Source Software
• Bibliography

Handouts

Exercises

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)
• Ashley Blewer: MediaInfo Parameter Definitions, [2023]
• ffprobe (CLI)

Media Players

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