Ffmpeg Patterns

This is your reference guide when you need to wrangle video or audio with FFmpeg and can't remember the exact flag incantation. It covers the common patterns: transcoding to different formats, extracting clips, resizing with proper aspect ratios, adding watermarks, normalizing audio, concatenating files, generating HLS streams, and batch processing entire directories. The examples are copy-paste ready with actual parameters instead of placeholders. Especially useful for the tricky stuff like speed adjustments with audio sync, multi-bitrate streaming setups, and hardware acceleration flags. Keep it open when you're doing media processing so you're not constantly searching Stack Overflow for the difference between setpts and atempo.