zmwangx/rust-ffmpeg
Safe FFmpeg wrapper. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
88/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 72
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 169.5
- age_days: 2911
- days_rel: 29
- days_push: 29
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
1983 stars · 291 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A safe Rust wrapper around the FFmpeg C libraries, published as the ffmpeg-next crate. It is a fork of the abandoned rust-ffmpeg crate and is currently in maintenance mode, supporting FFmpeg 3.4 through 8.0.
Use cases
- transcode video files from Rust
- extract audio tracks from video
- probe media file metadata
- encode and decode video frames in Rust
- build a media processing pipeline with FFmpeg bindings
- convert video formats programmatically
When to choose
- you need FFmpeg functionality from Rust with a safe API
- you need compatibility with a wide range of FFmpeg versions
- you want a maintained fork of the abandoned ffmpeg crate
When to avoid
- you need new FFmpeg APIs ported quickly, since the crate is maintenance-only
- you prefer shelling out to the ffmpeg CLI instead of linking libraries
- you need active feature development or API improvements
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
video-processing audio-processing image-processing sdk media developer-tools rust cross-platform ffmpeg bindings multimedia safe-wrapper transcoding video audio
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/zmwangx/rust-ffmpeg · fetched 2026-08-28 · fa1f1b3b2227
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| zmwangx/rust-ffmpeg | main | 88 |
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