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May 05 - May 11, 2025
Tutorials
Apr 27 - May 03, 2020
JavaScript
- editly (⭐4.9k) - Declarative video editing tool and library with slick animations and transitions.
May 27 - Jun 02, 2019
JavaScript
- ffparser (⭐7) - Parse input stream by frames directly into your code as a buffer.
Aug 13 - Aug 19, 2018
Docs
- Filters - Docs for FFmpeg's powerful filter chains (scaling, cropping, concatenating, merging, etc.). This is one of my most visited links when working with FFmpeg.
- Man page - Official FFmpeg man page.
- CLI flags (⭐50) - A comprehensive list of all FFmpeg commandline flags. Really useful for searching random flags that you come across in the wild.
JavaScript
- ffmpeg-concat (⭐935) - Concats a list of videos together using FFmpeg with sexy OpenGL transitions.
- ffmpeg-extract-frames (⭐64) - Extracts screenshots from a video using FFmpeg.
- ffmpeg.js (⭐3.4k) - Port of FFmpeg to JavaScript via Emscripten. Allows for limited FFmpeg use on the client-side.
- ffmpeg-static (⭐1.2k) - Provides static FFmpeg binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Very useful for CI testing.
- tangerine - Webcam streaming service using Node.js, FFmpeg, WebSockets, and Lad.
Community
Aug 06 - Aug 12, 2018
Native
- ffmpeg-gl-transition (⭐682) - FFmpeg filter for applying GLSL transitions between video streams (gl-transitions).
Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018
Mobile
- ijkplayer (⭐33k) - Android / iOS video player based on FFmpeg.
Tutorials
Jul 23 - Jul 29, 2018
Docs
- FFmpeg.org - Where it all starts.
- Wiki & Bug Tracker - Lots of great info on here.
Tutorials
Apr 30 - May 06, 2018
JavaScript
- gif-extract-frames (⭐32) - Extracts frames from GIFs including inter-frame coalescing.
Apr 02 - Apr 08, 2018
JavaScript
- fluent-ffmpeg (⭐8.2k) - A fluent API to FFmpeg. If you only use one tool from this list, it should be this one.
- ffmpeg-probe (⭐15) - Wrapper around ffprobe for getting info about media files.
- ffmpeg-generate-video-preview (⭐154) - Generates an attractive image strip or GIF preview from a video.
- ffmpeg-extract-frame (⭐15) - Extracts a single frame from a video.
- ffmpeg-extract-audio (⭐18) - Extracts an audio stream from a media file.
- ffmpeg-on-progress (⭐14) - Utility for robustly reporting progress with fluent-ffmpeg.
Mobile
- simplest ffmpeg mobile (⭐1.9k) - FFmpeg examples for Android and iOS.
Tutorials