# fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg

A fluent API to FFMPEG (http://www.ffmpeg.org)

Repository: https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-fluent-ffmpeg
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-05-22T09:42:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 22, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5622, "days_push": 468, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8240, forks 938 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:19.793397+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, audio-processing
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: ffmpeg, fluent-api, deprecated, media-transcoding, nodejs

## Member repositories
- fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:19.793397+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 2026-08-29T17:29:29.558183+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:19.793397+00:00, sha 2009cb62cdad)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/node-fluent-ffmpeg (fetched 2026-08-29T08:28:16.967660+00:00, sha 832df29cb336)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.