# giorgisio/goav

Golang bindings for FFmpeg (This repository is no longer maintained)

Repository: https://github.com/giorgisio/goav
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/goav
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ffmpeg-libraries, golang-bindings, video
Last push: 2022-05-19T23:28:55+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": 4122, "days_push": 1567, "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 2135, forks 359 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:17.558526+00:00)

## What it is
Go bindings for the FFmpeg multimedia libraries (libavcodec, libavformat, libavfilter, etc.) built with cgo. The repository is explicitly no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- transcode video files in go
- extract frames from mp4 in golang
- manipulate audio and video with ffmpeg from go
- decode video streams in a go program
- apply ffmpeg filters programmatically

## When to choose
- you need direct low-level access to FFmpeg APIs from Go
- you are pinned to an older FFmpeg version and can maintain the bindings yourself

## When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained project
- you just need to run ffmpeg commands - use os/exec with the ffmpeg CLI instead
- you need modern FFmpeg features or recent codec support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, image-processing
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: ffmpeg, cgo-bindings, multimedia, unmaintained, video, audio, linux

## Member repositories
- giorgisio/goav (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:17.558526+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 2026-08-30T02:51:54.489854+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/giorgisio/goav (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:17.558526+00:00, sha fd012bc028ea)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.