= FFmpeg
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FFmpeg is the <assembler (computing)> of audio and video.
As a result, <Ciro Santilli> who likes "lower level stuff", has had many many hours if image manipulation fun with this software, see e.g.:
* the "Media" section of <articles>.
* <image Ciro knows how to convert videos to GIFs>
As older Ciro grows, the more he notices that FFmpeg can do basically any lower level audio video task. It is just an amazing piece of software, the immediate go-to for any low level operation.
FFmpeg was created by <Fabrice Bellard>, which Ciro deeply respects.
Resize a video: https://superuser.com/questions/624563/how-to-resize-a-video-to-make-it-smaller-with-ffmpeg[]:
``
ffmpeg -i input.avi -filter:v scale=720:-1 -c:a copy output.mkv
``
Unlike every other convention under the sun, the height in `scale` is the first number.