tutorial
Basic Tutorial
This guide requires that FFmpegYAG is installed correctly and ready to use. It will show you a simple video compression task so you get familiar with the sofware.
Launching FFmpegYAG
You can start the application either by clicking on it in your file manager or enter the application name in a terminal. On startup the software will search for ffmpeg/avconv, if a single converter has been found then you won't be bothered. In case multiple converters have been found, FFmpegYAG will show you a list and you can select one. If no converter could be found, FFmpegYAG offers you a window to enter the custom location of the converter i.e. /usr/bin/ffmpeg
Select video converter
Enter path to video converter
Adding File
The next step is to load the source file. Click on the Add Task(s)... button and select the file you want to convert. This file is now in your task list, make sure it is selected (highlighted) so all settings we will make are for this task!
Added file to tasklist
Selecting Output Format/File
Now it is time to select what file format and file name we want to select for the encoded output file. The file format depends on the content that we want inside that file, for further information you should read some format specifications. In our tutorial we will use MP4, so select the mp4 entry in the format combobox. After that enter the path and file name of the output file in the textbox, please make sure that the filename is different from the input file that you have selected.
Output file format and name
Video Settings
It's time to select the video encoding parameters. First take a look into the stream list, usually there should only be one video stream. We want to include this stream in our output file so we activate the checkbox at the beginning. Make sure the stream is selected (highlighted) so all settings we will make are for this stream! Let's begin to select the settings for this stream. As codec we going to use libx264, a bitrate of 1800k should be ok for our test, we don't want to resize the input video or change the aspect ratio so we leave these values as no change.
Video settings
Audio Settings
You will see again a list of all audio streams. Just enable the checkboxes of those streams you want in your output file. In our tutorial we will only add one audio stream. Make sure the stream which you want to configure is selected (highlighted) so all settings we will make are for this stream! Again we start with the codec and select aac, a bitrate of 192k should be more than enough, we leave the sample rate and the channel count untouched by selecting no change.
Audio Settings
Subtitle Settings
Last stop before we can start encoding. This is similar to the previous settings, but we don't want any subtitles in our output video so we uncheck all streams. The rest of the settings can be ignored since they won't have any effect if we exclude the subtitle.
Subtitle Settings
Encode
Hit the Encode button, the statusbar should now show some information during encoding. Time to get a coffee... When the encoding is finished you should find the output video in the given location along with a log file which can be deleted.
Encoding Section
Congratulations on your first encoding task with FFmpegYAG
To use the full capabilities you should dig deeper into the detailed documentation.
