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Well it can rip DVDs but ffmpeg doesn't display anything, the closest to playing anything ffmpeg can do is stream the media to something else that can then show
by Bjartr 11y ago
Well it can rip DVDs but ffmpeg doesn't display anything, the closest to playing anything ffmpeg can do is stream the media to something else that can then show it on screen. So, to answer the question you asked more directly: No, you can't point ffmpeg at anything and have it play video, because that's not what it does. Things that do that might use ffmpeg underneath depending on exactly what's being done.
- gajjanag 11y agoIt is true that ffmpeg can't do this directly. However, the ffmpeg project ships with a command line ffplay utility that is a very capable command line interface media player. This uses the libav* libraries of ffmpeg for its work. On a side note, ffplay has a really neat feature: while playing an audio file using ffplay, it displays a spectrogram by default.
- keithpeter 11y agoExcellent. And clicking in the spectrogram window (launched ffmpeg from Gnome terminal so extra graphic window appears) jumps the playback to the appropriate % of the track.