---
name: "ffmsindex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ffmsindex"
version: "5.0-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ffmsindex"
---

# ffmsindex(1)

FFmpegSource2 indexing app

## NAME

ffmsindex - FFmpegSource2 indexing app

## SYNOPOSIS

```
ffmsindex [OPTIONS] INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]
```

## DESCRIPTION

ffmsindex creates an index file for the given INPUTFILE. If not OUTPUFILE is given, INPUTFILE.ffindex is used as output file.

- **-f**

  Force overwriting of existing index file, if any (default: no)

- **-v**

  Set FFmpeg verbosity level. Can be repeated for more verbosity. (default: no messages printed)

- **-p**

  Disable progress reporting. (default: progress reporting on)

- **-c**

  Write timecodes for all video tracks to outputfile\_track00.tc.txt (default: no)

- **-k**

  Write keyframes for all video tracks to outputfile\_track00.kf.txt (default: no)

- **-t *N***

  Set the audio indexing mask to N (-1 means index all tracks, 0 means index none, default: 0)

- **-d *N***

  Set the audio decoding mask to N (mask syntax same as **-t**, default: 0)

- **-a *NAME***

  Set the audio output base filename to NAME (default: input filename)

- **-s *N***

  Set audio decoding error handling. See the documentation for details. (default: 0)

- **-m *NAME***

  Force the use of demuxer NAME (default, lavf, matroska, haalimpeg, haaliogg)

## AUTHOR

This manpage was written by Sebastian Ramacher.