ffmpeg
Media processing (10 man pages).
When & Why to Use This Skill
This Claude skill integrates the powerful FFmpeg multimedia framework, enabling seamless media processing directly within your AI workflow. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for high-performance video and audio conversion, resizing, GIF generation, and stream capturing, making it an essential utility for automating visual content management and technical media tasks.
Use Cases
- Video Format Conversion: Effortlessly convert video files between formats like MOV, MP4, and WebM to ensure cross-platform compatibility and optimized web delivery.
- Audio Extraction and Processing: Extract high-quality audio tracks from video files or convert between audio formats (e.g., MP3 to AAC) for podcasting or transcription workflows.
- Automated Content Resizing: Scale and resize videos to specific resolutions (e.g., 720p or 480p) to meet various social media and platform requirements.
- GIF Creation: Generate optimized, high-quality GIFs from video segments with customized frame rates and scaling for marketing and social content.
- Media Assembly and Concatenation: Combine multiple video or audio clips into a single file, facilitating automated video editing and content compilation.
- Stream and Screen Capture: Capture live video streams or record inputs directly into media files for documentation, tutorials, or archival purposes.
| name | ffmpeg |
|---|---|
| description | Media processing (10 man pages). |
| version | 1.0.0 |
ffmpeg
Media processing (10 man pages).
Convert
ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v libx264 output.mp4
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 output.webm
Audio
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -c:a aac audio.m4a
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ar 44100 output.wav
Resize
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1280:720 output.mp4
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-1:480 output.mp4
GIF
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=10,scale=320:-1" output.gif
Concat
ffmpeg -f concat -i list.txt -c copy output.mp4
Capture
ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "1" -t 10 capture.mp4
Stream
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -f mpegts - | mpv -
Scientific Skill Interleaving
This skill connects to the K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills ecosystem:
Graph Theory
- networkx [○] via bicomodule
- Universal graph hub
Bibliography References
general: 734 citations in bib.duckdb
Cat# Integration
This skill maps to Cat# = Comod(P) as a bicomodule in the equipment structure:
Trit: 0 (ERGODIC)
Home: Prof
Poly Op: ⊗
Kan Role: Adj
Color: #26D826
GF(3) Naturality
The skill participates in triads satisfying:
(-1) + (0) + (+1) ≡ 0 (mod 3)
This ensures compositional coherence in the Cat# equipment structure.