ffmpeg-docs

ffmpeg-docs is a skill for Claude Code from damionrashford/media-os. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,402 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference tool for searching and reading the official FFmpeg documentation. FFmpeg is software for converting, processing, recording, and streaming audio and video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when checking an FFmpeg option, finding filter settings, looking up codec or streaming-format details, or preparing a non-trivial FFmpeg command.
Why use it?
It helps verify that commands, options, filters, codecs, and formats exist and work as documented.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the media-os plugin — 121 skills, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it when checking an FFmpeg option, finding filter settings, looking up codec or streaming-format details, or preparing a non-trivial FFmpeg command.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/damionrashford/media-os/ffmpeg-docs
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add damionrashford/media-os --skill ffmpeg-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damionrashford/media-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install media-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 121 skills, 11 agents, 5 hooks, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,402 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00147 $0.02402
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01201
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00240

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3fd21ad680c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ffmpeg-docs scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/ffdocs.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/ffmpeg-docs/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FFmpeg Docs

Context: $ARGUMENTS

Quick start

  • Find a filter / option: → Step 2 (search --query <term>)
  • Read the full section for a filter: → Step 3 (section --page ffmpeg-filters --id <anchor>)
  • Grab an entire doc page: → Step 4 (fetch --page <name>)
  • Prime cache for offline use: → Step 5 (index)

When to use

  • User asks "what does -X do in ffmpeg?" or "what are the parameters for filter Y?"
  • Need to verify a flag name exists before recommending it (prevents hallucinated options).
  • Need the exact option table for a muxer / demuxer / protocol / device.
  • Need to cite the canonical ffmpeg.org URL in a response.
  • Before writing any non-trivial ffmpeg command, check the current doc for the filter/option you're about to use.

Step 1 — Know the page catalog

The script only works against a fixed list of known ffmpeg.org doc pages. Get the list:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ffdocs.py list-pages

Common picks:

Question Page
"What does filter X do?" ffmpeg-filters
"What are the options for -c:v libx264?" ffmpeg-codecs
"What HLS muxer options exist?" ffmpeg-formats
"What does srt:// accept?" ffmpeg-protocols
"How do I capture with avfoundation?" ffmpeg-devices
"What bitstream filters are there?" ffmpeg-bitstream-filters
"ffprobe output fields?" ffprobe-all
"Expression syntax (eval, if, gt)?" ffmpeg-utils
"Scaler flags?" ffmpeg-scaler
"Resampler options?" ffmpeg-resampler

Read references/pages.md for the full catalog with descriptions.


Step 2 — Search first (this is the default)

When the user names a filter, option, muxer, or codec, search across all pages:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ffdocs.py search --query "tonemap" --limit 5

When you already know which page, scope the search to it (faster, less noise):

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ffdocs.py search --query "hls_time" --page ffmpeg-formats

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 214 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 3fd21ad680c1

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ffmpeg-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/media-os (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,402 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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