Technical Tutorial
FFmpeg Video Processing: The Complete 2025 Masterclass.
M3U8 Pro Lab
Jan 12, 2025
30 min read
FFmpeg is a powerful, open-source multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything.
Installing FFmpeg
macOS
brew install ffmpeg
Windows
winget install Gyan.FFmpeg
Common HLS Commands
Convert MP4 to standard M3U8 segments:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 0 -hls_segment_filename segment_%03d.ts output.m3u8