protonemedia/laravel-ffmpeg

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1814 stars · 200 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A Laravel package that wraps PHP-FFMpeg to provide an elegant, testable API for video and audio processing, with deep integration into Laravel's Filesystem, configuration, and logging. It includes built-in support for HLS streaming (including encrypted HLS with rotating AES-128 keys), watermarks, frame exports, concatenation, and VTT preview thumbnails.

Use cases

• transcode uploaded videos to multiple bitrates in Laravel
• generate HLS streams for HTTP video playback
• extract thumbnails and preview sprites from videos
• add watermarks to videos programmatically
• create encrypted HLS streams with rotating keys
• process videos stored on S3 or other Laravel filesystem disks
• build a video platform with Laravel

When to choose

• you're building a Laravel app that needs video/audio transcoding
• you want HLS or encrypted-HLS streaming with minimal setup
• you want FFmpeg processing integrated with Laravel's filesystem (local, S3, etc.)
• you need frame exports, watermarks, or VTT preview thumbnails

When to avoid

• your project doesn't use Laravel or PHP
• you need direct, low-level control over FFmpeg command-line arguments
• you need live transcoding of real-time input rather than file-based processing
• you're not comfortable managing the FFmpeg binary on your server

Facets

library · maturity active

video-processing image-processing streaming file-upload media web-development backend php self-hosted ffmpeg hls laravel-package video-transcoding php-ffmpeg thumbnail-generation watermarking video laravel web-server

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="protonemedia/laravel-ffmpeg")