How to Convert Media Files Using FFmpeg and Termux – Guide
Termux is our favorite terminal emulator for Android. Yesterday we saw how to download any video with Termux. And today we are going to take a look at How to use it to convert any video on Android with FFmpeg. There is no real advantage to using Termux over the Android video converting apps you can find on the Google Play Store. However, using the terminal definitely feels geeky and you can support FFmpeg 100’s of video and image formats. There are no real benefits of using Termux over Video Converter for Android apps that you can find on the Google Play Store. Although using the terminal definitely looks challenging and you can FFmpeg support hundreds of video and image formats. Thanks again to Gabi Tiplea for providing the source code. This method should work in conjunction with our previous YouTube dl library. Then open the Termux app and copy and paste 4 commands in the same order. Just copy and paste them. Some commands to load the library will be executed. wget https://pastebin.com/raw/qBV2u7Ey -O install.sh dos2unix install.sh chmod u + x install.sh ./install.sh
Convert media files using FFmpeg and Termux
Here’s what you need to do to easily convert your media files using FFmpeg and Termux:
Install the Termux app
Install the FFmpeg package
Enable storage access for Termux
Convert your media files
The above steps only need to be performed once. After that, you can open the Termux app, browse to the media location and use the FFmpeg command to convert your media files. For example, let’s convert a FLAC audio file found in the music folder on the device’s internal shared storage.
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