Your target (Plex, mobile devices, old hardware)
: Places the seek point at 4 minutes. Placing this before the input ( -i ) ensures fast seeking by utilizing keyframes.
The custom audio panning filter ( -af "pan..." ) redistributes the audio components based on standard psychoacoustic mixing principles: Original 5.1 Channel Output Stereo Destination Coefficient Weighting Left & Right Channels 1.0001.000 Preserves crystal-clear voice acting. Front Left (FL) Left Channel 0.7070.707 Retains accurate left-stage audio positioning. Front Right (FR) Right Channel 0.7070.707 Retains accurate right-stage audio positioning. Back Left (BL) Left Channel 0.5000.500 Fades ambient environment noises safely into background. Back Right (BR) Right Channel 0.5000.500 Fades ambient environment noises safely into background. 5. Extracting Subtitles and Closed Captions
ffmpeg -i episode.mkv -ss 00:08:15 -t 3 -vf "fps=12,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" rick_microverse.gif