Background
If you are a developer and a geek and need to work on the images/videos formatting in terms of cropping, scaling or resizing then you can use FFmpeg for that. Static build for FFmpeg is available on -
which you can download and store it on your local machine to use.
I have even added this to my Linux PATH so that I can access it from anywhere. If you are not aware how to do that refer -
Once you have added FFmpeg in your PATH you can simply run ffmpeg to see the help content -
Specifically, if you are working on making Android or iOS apps or chrome plugin and you have an icon of standard size and you want to resize it to fit other aspect ratios supported by the corresponding platforms then FFmpeg really comes in handy.
Rescaling images with FFmpeg
I have a simple icon with size 256*256 to be used as replay button.
I want it in 128*128 size. You can do this with the following command -
- ffmpeg -i icon-256.png -vf scale="128:128" icon-128.png
- ffmpeg -i icon-256.png -vf scale="48:48" icon-48.png
If you want to want to retain the aspect ration you can do -
- ffmpeg -i icon-256.png -vf scale="128:-1" icon-128.png
You can do similar resizing for a video instead of an image -
- ffmpeg -i input.avi -vf scale="320:240" output.avi
- ffmpeg -i icon-256.png -vf scale="iw*2:ih*2" icon-double.png
Since this is double this would be 512*512 since original was 256*256.
Similarly, if you want half you can do -
- ffmpeg -i icon-256.png -vf scale="iw/2:ih/2" icon-half.png
Since this is half this would be 128*128 since original was 256*256.
NOTE :
- iw : input width
- ih : input height
