https://pratapvardhan.com/tags/images/ Recent content in Images on Pratap Vardhan Hugo en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:36:40 +0530 https://pratapvardhan.com/notes/ffmpeg/images-to-mp4/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pratapvardhan.com/notes/ffmpeg/images-to-mp4/ <p>FFmpeg command to convert images to MP4 video: <code>*.jpg</code> images in the current directory.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>ffmpeg -framerate <span style="color:#ae81ff">2</span> -pattern_type glob -i <span style="color:#e6db74">&#39;*.jpg&#39;</span> <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -vf <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#e6db74">pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2&#34;</span> <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4 </span></span></code></pre></div><ul> <li><code>-framerate 2</code>: set frame rate to 2 frames per second.</li> <li><code>-pattern_type glob</code>: use glob pattern to match images.</li> <li><code>-i '*.jpg'</code>: input images.</li> <li><code>-vf &quot;scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,\pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2&quot;</code>: video filter to scale the video to 1280x720 pixels and pad the video to 1280x720 pixels.</li> <li><code>-c:v libx264</code>: set video codec to libx264.</li> <li><code>-pix_fmt yuv420p</code>: set pixel format to yuv420p.</li> <li><code>output.mp4</code>: output file.</li> </ul>