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FFMPEG Command to Show Detailed Progress Bar While Converting Media Files in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -progress pipe:1 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset slow -c:a aac -b:a 192k output.mkv
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you how to
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show a progress bar while you convert
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your videos using ffmppg So by default
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ffmpg do have a built-in progress bar
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For this you I will show you the command
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here You just need to include some
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options right here So what I have here
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this is actually video file present So I
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just need to convert this video from MP4
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to MKV with a progress path So we will
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just write this command I've also given
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this command in the description of this
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video So ffmppg- i Then we provide the
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name of the input video file
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1.mpp4 And then we simply include this
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progress bar by -ash
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progress
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pipe_1 And then we encode copy the
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encoding settings which is -ash
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c_v And then we use
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this lib x264 which is the encoder
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name and then
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CRF So the main motive is to show the
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progress bar So we are just encoding the
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video here So dash preset
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slow You can do this with any command So
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you can convert video to MP4 MKV
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anything and show a progress bar as well
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So it will show you how much time is
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left in uh processing the video So it
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will be
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useful So if I enter it you will see now
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it is showing this uh progress bar It is
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showing the speed here This is your
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progress The frame frame by frame it
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will show the progress bar and it will
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exactly tell you how much time is
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remaining What is the speed of
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conversion all these things will be
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displayed in the terminal which will
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make it easy for the user to see
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ultimately how much time is
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remaining So this is actually the
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built-in progress bar which is there
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inside uh
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ffmppg So you can see the conversion has
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been completed the video is converted
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from MP4 to MKV
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uh and just click the new So I've given
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this command in the description of this
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video You can do this with any command
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here You just need to include this dash
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progress pipe is equal to 1 So this you
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need to do You can do this with any
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command So it will show you a detailed
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progress
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bar So thank you very much for watching
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this video and also check out my website
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uh which contains thousands of tools
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