Utilities for working with ffmpeg, such as downloading ffmpeg executables and displaying progress for ffmpeg commands.
To install the library, use pip:
pip install ffutilsAlternatively, install the latest directly from the GitHub repository:
pip install git+https://github.com/dsymbol/ffutils.gitfrom ffutils import get_ffmpeg_exe, ffprog
# Download ffmpeg executable if not found in PATH
get_ffmpeg_exe()
# Example ffmpeg command to convert a video with progress
command = ["ffmpeg", "-i", "input.mp4", "output.mkv"]
ffprog(command, desc="Converting video")Combine ffmpeg-python and a progress bar:
import ffmpeg
from ffutils import get_ffmpeg_exe, ffprog
get_ffmpeg_exe()
command = (
ffmpeg
.input('video.mp4')
.output('output.mkv')
).get_args()
ffprog(
command,
desc="Converting video"
)