ffmpeg video to images code example

Example 1: embeed text into video ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf drawtext="fontfile=/path/to/font.ttf: \
text='Stack Overflow': fontcolor=white: fontsize=24: box=1: [email protected]: \
boxborderw=5: x=(w-text_w)/2: y=(h-text_h)/2" -codec:a copy output.mp4

Example 2: ffmpeg images to video

ffmpeg -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -i pic%04d.png -vcodec libx264 -crf 25  -pix_fmt yuv420p test.mp4

Example 3: ffmpeg python video from images

def read_frame_as_jpg(in_filename, frame_num):
    out, err = (
        ffmpeg
        .input(in_filename)
        .filter_('select', 'gte(n,{})'.format(frame_num))
        .output('pipe:', vframes=1, format='image2', vcodec='mjpeg')
        .run(capture_stdout=True)
    )
    return out