u2takey/ffmpeg-go

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ffmpeg-go is a pure-Go binding for FFmpeg, ported from the Python library ffmpeg-python. It provides a fluent API for building and running FFmpeg command-line pipelines for video and audio processing, requiring FFmpeg to be installed separately.

Use cases

• transcode videos between codecs in go
• cut or trim video clips by timestamp
• add watermarks or overlays to videos
• convert video segments to gifs
• build complex ffmpeg filter graphs programmatically
• extract audio from video files

When to choose

• you want to script ffmpeg operations from Go with a type-safe fluent API
• you need to compose complex filter graphs (split, concat, overlay, trim) in code
• you are porting workflows from ffmpeg-python to a Go stack

When to avoid

• you need embedded ffmpeg binaries or automatic installation
• you need low-latency streaming processing rather than command invocation
• your project is not in Go

Facets

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video-processing audio-processing cli developer-tools media developer-tools go cross-platform cli ffmpeg-wrapper golang-binding media-transcoding video-filters python-port video audio

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