 Greetings folks, so quick episode regarding the whole subject of podcast This is let me just check my levels real quick. I'm just making these videos basically as I come up Figure stuff out on Linux. I've been using Linux for more than 10 years, but Linux is a daily battle train of figure stuff out Looking to the community for info and then figuring stuff out This is honestly something I enjoy about us and I guess my thought last week was if I'm figuring stuff out from the community and I can describe something back that might help someone It would be nice to start contributing knowledge as well as just taking from knowledge So let me just describe the use case here this episode. I've called uploading podcast to YouTube Now that might sound a bit weird because you're thinking YouTube is a platform for videos I'm not convinced that this Doesn't violate linked YouTube's terms of service, but it doesn't seem to be recommended and this is basically My rationale for doing so so I have a podcast for my writing business DSR ghostwriting.com and Recently did a medium post and Just about ghostwriting, which is what I do ghostwriting. What is it? What is it not blah blah blah? And I wanted to and LinkedIn embed that podcast So medium it was pretty easy you can drop in a link on anchor or drop in a Spotify link And it'll automatically create a nice little iframe for you All on the back end. You don't need to do anything. It didn't work on LinkedIn. So I decided let's just do the YouTube thing which I've done before typically We just pop up open shot here. This is the usual way I would do it, right? So I've designed some Let me just find my cover right here Uno momento I've designed this cover art for the for the podcast, you know, this this is 10 1920 by 1080 so it's for 1080p resolution and basically put your cover art on track one put your audio on track two Export video let it run. I always felt this was kind of dumb. So you have to use GUI just for this purpose It also kind of takes oil if it's like an hour-long podcast So I'm not sure the CLI is necessarily any quicker But it's definitely more elegant. So let me first credit the right people Came across this thread. I actually asked myself and ask a bunch of you and they directed me to the thread Surprisingly old actually. I'm just noticing now. It's from almost nine years ago Combine one image and one audio file to make one video using ffmpeg So this is pretty much exactly what if you're making a podcast And you're just having your podcast cover arts and your podcast you're going to be wanting to be doing now Obviously if you have several images Blah blah blah that would not necessarily work. I'm not sure if if this would kind of fall down at that point For those that don't know ffmpeg, it's a command line interface a CLI Very versatile very powerful as people said so you don't need to be looking for fancy solutions for this problem ffmpeg is Actually all this requires so As I said open shot if you want to do this it does work But let me show you how it works on ffmpeg. So the guy was not having success and the first answer which has a hundred and fifty four Upvotes Basically said that the order in the syntax was wrong. So Let me just pop open case. I already have it open ff ffmpeg Mine minus loop one minus y Okay, I can guess minus i is calling is the operator calling the image Not actually sure what Loop is the loop You can if you look through the manual for ffmpeg. You'll probably I'm sure they've documented here with all these Operators do I'm just looking for minus minus y and Any event minus y override output file without asking okay main options So that's basically what that does looks for the image Just give it the image path and the next one is asking for minus i is calling for the input file input file You are also so you need to do image cover art and then sound Then you have the codec here and finally you're where I'm highlighting. That's the output file So basically, let's just build this command Dropping down to the desktop. I'm just gonna grab the path for the cover art, which I just showed you put that here boom and I Just created a 10 second audio clip so that this thing runs really quick and Actual podcast is 30 minutes But this is just a 10 second thing. I cut down the not day city path for the audio is there and Just create the output file and just call it like finished podcast audio MP4 let's say So that's our command ffmpeg Calling the cover art calling the image giving it the codec information it needs these are just a codecs the codecs which the guy did and I haven't given it actually Haven't given it an absolute path So I'm just gonna go to the desktop we're gonna run this and it should give me the file on the desktop So we're looking for a podcast finished podcast underscore audio mp4 moment of truth Should just take a few seconds There it is Finished file. Let me just pop in my headphones success That's it. That's all you need to do and In order to get your cover art Or and then just upload that file to LinkedIn at YouTube and you're finished. That's end of tutorial