ffbar (Yet another) ffmpeg wrapper that displays progress on a friendly way. Usage As a wrapper $ ffbar -i in.mp4 out.mp4 Piping both stdout and stderr $ ffmpeg -nostdin -stats -progress - -i in.mp4 out.mp4 2>&1 | ffbar Installation Download one of the available static compiled binaries from the releases page. Or build it yourself (needs a working opam setup). $ make deps $ make install