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We are proud to announce the yt-dlp and FFmpeg Workshop!

  • Time: May the 4th, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location: Lobby Voice Channel in the Swinux Discord Server
  • Host: Leon Burchell - Vice President
  • Ticket Sales: May the 1st 4:00 PM - May the 4th 4:00 PM

An online workshop covering the basics of yt-dlp and FFmpeg, 2 powerful command-line tools for working with digital media.

In this workshop, you’ll be learning the usage of yt-dlp and FFmpeg by running example commands yourself. This workshop will also teach you about codecs and other concepts around video and audio encoding.

The workshop will start at 4:30 PM. Please complete the pre-workshop content before attending.

This workshop will cover the following features:

  • yt-dlp
    • Self-Updating
    • Output Template
    • Format Selection
    • Filtering Format
    • Sorting Formats
    • Subtitle Processing
  • FFmpeg
    • FFprobe
    • Container Selection
    • Stream Copying
    • Transcoding
    • Subtitle Bake-In Video Filter
    • Resolution, Framerate and Sample Rate Definition
    • Rate Control

The workshop features 2 exercises, 1 for each tool, and a homework exercise to be done after the workshop.

Attendance is online-only. While we plan on recording this workshop, we can’t guarantee that a recording will be released. Materials used in this workshop will be provided online via https://swinux.org and the #events channel.

Workshop Content⌗

Recording⌗

The workshop is already over and the recording has been released! You can download it from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_nRlPWICzURcvauANQGAhacnD33LABMv