FFmpeg create muted audio file from video without audio - ffmpeg

I have a webm file with only the video track. I would like to know if is it possible to create a new file with an only muted audio track of the same duration as the video file. Let's say that we have a webm vp8 and I want to create another file with the same duration with a muted AAC track.

Yes, using pipes, like this.
ffmpeg -an -i in.webm -f lavfi -i anullsrc -c:v copy -c:a aac -shortest -fflags +shortest -max_interleave_delta 200M -f nut - | ffmpeg -f nut -i - -vn -c copy silent.m4a

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Create background sound for video with ffmpeg

I have a video file without sound and a stereo audio file. Video is several times longer than audio. I'd like to create a background sound which starts from 2 second silence, then trim silence of the audio at both ends and duplicate trimmed audio several times to the end of the video.
I found how to trim audio:
ffmpeg -y -i audio.wav -af silenceremove=start_periods=1:start_threshold=-75dB,areverse,silenceremove=start_periods=1:start_threshold=-75dB,areverse trimmed_audio.wav
And how to create silence:
ffmpeg -y -f lavfi -i anullsrc=channel_layout=stereo:sample_rate=48000:duration=2 silence.wav
How can I duplicate the audio and combine it with the video?
Basic syntax is
ffmpeg -an -i video -stream_loop -1 -i trimmed_audio.wav -af adelay=2000:all=1 -shortest -fflags +shortest -max_interleave_delta 100M out.mp4
Use ffmpeg 4.1 or newer.

Command to stream MPEG-1 video

I'm trying to stream MPEG-1 video over FFMPEG with
ffmpeg -i "out.ts" -f flv -listen 1 -i rtmp://localhost:8889/live/app -c copy -f flv -listen 1 rtmp://localhost:1935/live/app
The out.ts file is a MPEG-1 video encoded with
ffmpeg -i out.avi -f mpegts -codec:v mpeg1video -b:v 1500k -r 30 -bf 0 -codec:a mp2 -b 0 -q 5 -t 1 out.ts
When I try to open the stream with VLC: rtmp://localhost:1935/live/app media is not playing. What's the command to stream MPEG-1 video over FFMPEG?
RTMP does not have support for mpeg1 video or mpeg2 audio. You can see the complete list if supported code in the fly specification under the VIDEODATA header.
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/flv/video_file_format_spec_v10.pdf
To stream MPEG-1 video using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -re -y -i out.ts -an -f rtp_mpegts rtp://127.0.0.1:1234
Credit to: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2015-October/028879.html
(Although the source video is 720p, the stream in VLC looks like 360p and no audio is streamed, any idea would be appreciated)

Create muted video and black screen video with FFmpeg

I'm trying to use FFmpeg to generate the following from a local mp4 file:
A copy of the original video with no audio
A copy of the original video with audio but without visuals (a black screen instead). This file also needs to be in mp4 format.
After reading through the documentation I am struggling to get the terminal commands right. To remove the audio I have tried this command without any success:
ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -map 0:0 -map 0:2 -acodec copy -vcodec copy
Could anyone guide me towards how to accomplish this?
Create black video and silent audio
Use the color and anullsrc filters. Example to make 10 second output, 1280x720, 25 frame rate, stereo audio, 44100 sample rate:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=size=1280x720:rate=25:color=black -f lavfi -i anullsrc=channel_layout=stereo:sample_rate=44100 -t 10 output.mp4
Remove audio
Only keep video:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0:v -c copy output.mp4
Keep everything except audio:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -map -0:a -c copy output.mp4
See FFmpeg Wiki: Map for more info on -map.
Make video black but keep the audio
Using the drawbox filter.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf drawbox=color=black:t=fill -c:a copy output.mp4
Generate silent audio
See How to add a new audio (not mixing) into a video using ffmpeg? and refer to the anullsrc example.
To remove the audio you can use this:
ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -c copy -an file-nosound.mp4
notice the -an option
-an (output)
Disable audio recording.
To keep audio but "replace" the video with a black screen, you could do this:
ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -i image.png -filter_complex overlay out.mp4
image.png is a black wallpaper that is placed on top of the video, but there should be better ways of full removing the frames, you could either extract the audio and later create a new video with the audio as a background

ffmpeg how to record and preview at the same time

I want to capture video+audio from directshow device like webcam and stream it to RTMP server. This part no problem. But the problem is that I want to be able to see the preview of it. After a lot of search someone said pipe the input using tee muxer to ffplay. but I couldn't make it work. Here is my code for streaming to rtmp server. how should I change it?
ffmpeg -rtbufsize 8196k -framerate 25 -f dshow -i video="Microsoft® LifeCam Studio(TM)":audio="Desktop Microphone (Microsoft® LifeCam Studio(TM))" -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -strict -2 -b:v 1024k -b:a 128k -ar 48000 -s 720x576 -f flv "rtmp://ip-address-of-my-server/live/out"
Here is the final code I used and it works.
ffmpeg -rtbufsize 8196k -framerate 25 -f dshow -i video="Microsoft® LifeCam Studio(TM)":audio="Desktop Microphone (Microsoft® LifeCam Studio(TM))" -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -strict -2 -f tee -map 0:v -map 0:a "[f=flv]rtmp://ip-address-and-path|[f=nut]pipe:" | ffplay pipe:
The core command for those running ffmpeg on a Unix-compatible system (e.g. MacOS, BSD and GNU-Linux) is really quite simple. It's to redirect or to "pipe" one of the outputs of ffmpeg to ffplay. The main problem here is that ffmpeg cannot autodetect the media format (or container) if the output doesn't have a recognizable file extension such as .avi or .mkv.
Therefore you should specify the format with the option -f. You can list the available choices for option -f with the ffmpeg -formats command.
In the following GNU/Linux command example, we record from an input source named /dev/video0 (possibly a webcam). The input source can also be a regular file.
ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -f matroska - filename.mkv | ffplay -i -
A less ambiguous way of writing this for non-Unix users would be to use the special output specifier pipe.
ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -f matroska pipe:1 filename.mkv | ffplay -i pipe:0
The above commands should be enough to produce a preview. But to make sure that you get the video and audio quality you want, you also need to specify, among other things, the audio and video codecs.
ffmpeg -i /dev/video -c:v copy -c:a copy -f matroska - filename.mkv | ffplay -i -
If you choose a slow codec like Google's AV1, you'd still get a preview, but one that stutters.

FFmpeg simple 1:1 overlay and concatenate?

I am using ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04 (Jon Severinsson's PPA) and am playing video files out of a folder - one by one.
First question I wasn't able to figure out yet - how can I add a simple overlay - 720p footage with 720p overlay (with partial transparency)? So there is no resize or alignment needed - just the 1:1 overlay. I tried a lot already with -vf and -filter_complex but didn't show up.
Second question - with concatenate, is it possible to have the switches between the files seamless? Best without creating a new file - so, on the fly? I need to reduce the gaps between the file switches or eliminate them completely.
This is my bash right now:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
while :; do
files=(*)
ffmpeg -re -i "${files[$RANDOM % ${#files[#]}]}" -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f flv ServerAddress
done
So I have everything in /vod - the videofiles, as well as the overlay.png
Thanks a bunch in advance,
Tim
For the overlay you need to scale the image to the original source dimensions.
To concat multiple source files that have the same codec use the concat demuxer.
Eg:
Make a playlist.txt with the following format:
file '/path/to/file_1'
file '/path/to/file_2'
file '/path/to/file_3'
[..]
And then:
ffmpeg -f concat -i playlist.txt -i overlay.png -filter_complex "[1:v] scale=1280:720 [ovr];[0:v][ovr] overlay=0:0" ...
If the video and the image are the same size you can just use:
ffmpeg -f concat -i playlist.txt -i overlay.png -filter_complex "[0:v] overlay"
Update:
Full example:
You cannot filter and copy the video stream at the same time!
ffmpeg -re -f concat -i playlist.txt -i overlay.png -filter_complex "[0:v] overlay" -c:v h264 -c:a libfdk_aac -ar 44100 -f flv rtmp://...
If your audio stream is valid and has one of the supported audio rates (44100, 22050, 11025) you can do:
ffmpeg -re -f concat -i playlist.txt -i overlay.png -filter_complex "[0:v] overlay" -c:v h264 -c:a copy -f flv rtmp://...

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