fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg
A fluent API to FFMPEG (http://www.ffmpeg.org) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 22
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5622
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 468
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
8240 stars · 938 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A Node.js library providing a fluent, chainable API over the ffmpeg command-line tool for media transcoding and processing. It is now deprecated, unmaintained, and may not work with recent ffmpeg versions.
Use cases
- convert videos to different formats from node.js
- extract audio tracks from video files
- generate video thumbnails programmatically
- transcode media files in a web server
- probe media file metadata with ffprobe
- build ffmpeg commands without writing raw CLI strings
When to choose
- you are on a legacy Node.js codebase already using it with an older ffmpeg version
- you need a quick fluent wrapper and accept the maintenance risk
When to avoid
- starting a new project - the library is deprecated and readonly
- you need compatibility with recent ffmpeg versions
- you need bug fixes or support
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
video-processing audio-processing media developer-tools cross-platform ffmpeg fluent-api deprecated media-transcoding nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2009cb62cdad
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/node-fluent-ffmpeg · fetched 2026-08-29 · 832df29cb336
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg | main | 10 |
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