Provides a thorough, example-rich guide to FFmpeg command-line usage and common workflows: format conversion, codec selection (H.264/H.265/VP9/AV1), CRF/bitrate settings, audio extraction, scaling/resizing, trimming, concatenation, filters, streaming (RTMP/HLS), hardware acceleration, and media analysis with ffprobe.
Use when an agent needs to produce concrete ffmpeg commands, troubleshoot encoding errors, recommend quality vs. speed trade-offs, create HLS/RTMP streaming setups, or craft batch processing scripts for media pipelines. Works well for video engineers, DevOps, and content creators.
Useful for agents that can output shell commands or automation scripts (Copilot/Codex-style). Agents should validate host capabilities (installed codecs, hwaccel) before recommending hardware-accelerated commands.
FFmpeg Guide is a comprehensive reference skill covering encoding, conversion, streaming, filtering, and analysis with FFmpeg. It contains no executable scripts — purely documentation with well-organized bash examples ranging from basic format conversion to advanced HLS streaming and hardware acceleration. Clean, practical, and broadly useful for any developer working with media.
Pure reference skill with no scripts. All commands are standard ffmpeg usage patterns — no security concerns. The skill_md_body was null in the DB fetch; retrieved from GitHub raw URL. Skill could benefit from splitting advanced sections into references/ to keep SKILL.md leaner.
