Tag: ffmpeg

How to repair an mp4 video

There is an mp4 video that will play flawlessly in some applications and not others. Using the tools of ffmpeg, I was able to determine the problem and remove it. By executing the following command, the problem(s) became easily identifiable. ffprobe -hide_banner -analyzeduration 1G -probesize 1G -i bad.mp4 The truncated results of the output are below. This is the first…

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Install ffmpeg on Rocky Linux 8

There are several guides that I followed in attempts to install ffmpeg without success. There were issues with the incorrect cases of the names, like using PowerTools instead of powertools or leaving out much needed repos to make it possible to install. This guide will install ffmpeg on a Rocky Linux 8 linux machine. Install The following commands will install…

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