# steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip

Connect to remote ffmpeg servers

Repository: https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ffmpeg-over-ip
Homepage: https://ffmpeg-over-ip.com/
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: emby, ffmpeg, gpu, jellyfin
Last push: 2026-06-14T02:51:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 87, release rhythm 88, longevity 66
- inputs: {"age_days": 931, "days_push": 80, "days_rel": 80, "gap_med": 16, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1176, forks 37 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:52.613094+00:00)

## What it is
A client/server tool that lets applications use GPU-accelerated ffmpeg on a remote machine over a single TCP connection, without GPU passthrough or shared filesystems. The client masquerades as the ffmpeg binary, forwarding arguments to a server running a patched ffmpeg that tunnels all file I/O back to the client.

## Use cases
- use GPU transcoding from a Docker container without nvidia runtime passthrough
- share one GPU across multiple VMs for video transcoding
- let Jellyfin or Emby transcode on a remote GPU machine without NFS
- avoid shared filesystem setup for remote ffmpeg jobs
- run ffmpeg on a machine that has files but no GPU
- expose NVENC or QSV transcoding over the network

## When to choose
- your media server runs in a container or VM without GPU access
- you want to centralize GPU transcoding on one host
- you need ffmpeg/ffprobe access to files that must stay on the client machine
- you want prebuilt ffmpeg binaries with broad hardware acceleration support

## When to avoid
- client and server can share the same filesystem and GPU directly
- you need low-latency local transcoding with no network hop
- you require features beyond what the patched ffmpeg tunnel supports

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, networking, security, gpu-computing, cli
- domain: media, self-hosted, networking, gpu-computing
- platform: windows, self-hosted, go
- tags: ffmpeg, transcoding, gpu-acceleration, jellyfin, emby, media-server, remote-transcoding, nvenc, hardware-acceleration, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.613094+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 2026-08-30T06:26:36.327536+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.613094+00:00, sha 09e67f1ead54)
  - homepage: https://ffmpeg-over-ip.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:33:01.406007+00:00, sha f98df93f5a6e)
  - site_page: https://ffmpeg-over-ip.com/docs/quick-start (fetched 2026-08-29T12:33:01.415238+00:00, sha 93642ba0f936)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.