# bramp/ffmpeg-cli-wrapper

Java wrapper around the FFmpeg command line tool

Repository: https://github.com/bramp/ffmpeg-cli-wrapper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ffmpeg-cli-wrapper
Language: Java
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: java, ffmpeg
Last push: 2026-08-16T08:42:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 78, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4582, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 149, "gap_med": 2, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1905, forks 425 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:51.906025+00:00)

## What it is
A Java library providing a fluent interface for building and running FFmpeg command-line operations, including probing media files with ffprobe. It wraps the external FFmpeg binary rather than reimplementing codecs.

## Use cases
- transcode video files to mp4 with specific codecs from Java
- probe media file metadata like duration and resolution
- extract audio from video files
- generate thumbnails from videos
- resize and re-encode video with a target file size
- automate ffmpeg jobs in a Java backend

## When to choose
- you're on the JVM and want type-safe, fluent ffmpeg command construction
- you need media probing (ffprobe) results as Java objects
- you want a maintained wrapper instead of shelling out to ffmpeg manually

## When to avoid
- you need native in-process encoding without an external ffmpeg binary
- you're not on the JVM
- you need GPU-accelerated pipelines with fine-grained control beyond CLI flags

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, cli
- domain: media, developer-tools, backend
- platform: jvm, cross-platform, windows
- tags: ffmpeg, fluent-interface, video-encoding, media-transcoding, java-library, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- bramp/ffmpeg-cli-wrapper (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.906025+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:11:42.815120+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bramp/ffmpeg-cli-wrapper (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.906025+00:00, sha 2cd25690fbe2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.