plain-ffmpeg

Plain FFmpeg

Plain FFmpeg is really tiny library for constructing and executing FFmpeg processes from Node.

Features

• Output from stderr is formated in JSON
• Unlike other FFmpeg wrappers, it exposes the actual process and it's events
• It doesn't provide convinience methods that mask options i.e you'll be using .in('-r', 24) to set the input framerate instead of .setFramerate(24)

Example

One way of starting the process is:

var FFmpeg = require('./plain-ffmpeg');

var ffmpeg = new FFmpeg();

ffmpeg.input('http://istec.colostate.edu/me/facil/dynamics/files/drop.avi');
ffmpeg.output('out/video.mp4');
ffmpeg.in('-r', '24');
ffmpeg.out('-y');
ffmpeg.start();

ffmpeg.on('progress', function(progress) {
    console.log(progress);
})

All methods return the object, so you can chain them like:

var ffmpeg = new FFmpeg('input_path', 'output_path').out('-f', 'mp4').start()

The third argument in the constructor is an options object, so you can pass it presets:

var h264_preset = {
    in: {'-r', '24'},
    out: {
        '-c:v': 'libx264', 
        '-c:a': 'libaac'
    }
}

var ffmpeg = new FFmpeg('input_path', null, h264_preset).output('output_path');
ffmpeg.start()