# u2takey/ffmpeg-go

golang binding for ffmpeg

Repository: https://github.com/u2takey/ffmpeg-go
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ffmpeg-go
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: ffmpeg-wrapper, ffmpeg, golang, go
Last push: 2024-05-24T01:49:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2122, "days_push": 832, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2346, forks 213 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:39.863608+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, cli, developer-tools
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: go, cross-platform, cli
- tags: ffmpeg-wrapper, golang-binding, media-transcoding, video-filters, python-port, video, audio

## Member repositories
- u2takey/ffmpeg-go (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:39.863608+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 2026-08-30T02:37:02.330341+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/u2takey/ffmpeg-go (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:39.863608+00:00, sha 87ff8cf472ef)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.