ffutils 2025.3.11

Utilities for working with ffmpeg

ffutils

Utilities for working with ffmpeg, such as downloading ffmpeg executables and displaying progress for ffmpeg commands.

Installation

To install the library, use pip:

pip install ffutils

Alternatively, install the latest directly from the GitHub repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/dsymbol/ffutils.git

Usage

from ffutils import get_ffmpeg_exe, ffprog

# Download ffmpeg executable if not found in PATH
get_ffmpeg_exe()

# Example ffmpeg command to convert a video with progress
command = ["ffmpeg", "-i", "input.mp4", "output.mkv"]
ffprog(command, desc="Converting video")

Combine ffmpeg-python and a progress bar:

import ffmpeg
from ffutils import get_ffmpeg_exe, ffprog

get_ffmpeg_exe()

command = (
    ffmpeg
    .input('video.mp4')
    .output('output.mkv')
).get_args()

ffprog(
    command,
    desc="Converting video"
)