FFmpeg

FFmpeg [1] is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is also highly portable: FFmpeg compiles, runs, and passes our testing infrastructure FATE across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, the BSDs, Solaris, etc. under a wide variety of build environments, machine architectures, and configurations.

FFmpeg in HPC

Compiling and Running FFmpeg C code that opens movie file and save the RGB information in PPM format [2]:

Request a compute node for 1 hour

srun -t 1:00:00 --mem-per-cpu=4gb --pty bash

Copy the files from /usr/local/doc/FFMPEG

cp /usr/local/doc/FFMPEG/* .

Load the module

module load ffmpeg

References:

[1] FFmpeg HOME