ffplay Command Examples

A simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. More information: https://ffmpeg.org/ffplay-all.html.

• Play a media file:

ffplay {{path/to/file}}

• Play audio from a media file without a GUI:

ffplay -nodisp {{path/to/file}}

• Play media passed by ffmpeg through stdin:

ffmpeg -i {{path/to/file}} -c {{copy}} -f {{media_format}} - | ffplay -

• Play a video and show motion vectors in real time:

ffplay -flags2 +export_mvs -vf codecview=mv=pf+bf+bb {{path/to/file}}

• Show only video keyframes:

ffplay -vf select="{{eq(pict_type\,PICT_TYPE_I)}}" {{path/to/file}}