pyav 11.3.0

Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg's libraries.

pyav

pyav implements bindings for the ffmpeg libraries. We aim to provide all of the power and control of the underlying library, but manage the gritty details as much as possible.

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pyav is for direct and precise access to your media via containers, streams, packets, codecs, and frames. It exposes a few transformations of that data, and helps you get your data to/from other packages (e.g. Numpy and Pillow).

This power does come with some responsibility as working with media is horrendously complicated and pyav can't make all the best decisions for you. If the ffmpeg cli does the job without you bending over backwards, use it. pyav is much more complicated than the standalone ffmpeg program.

Installing

Just run:

pip install pyav

Running the command should install the binary wheel provided. Due to the complexity of the dependencies, pyav is not easy to install from source. If you want to try your luck anyway, you can run:

pip install pyav --no-binary pyav

And if you want to build the absolute latest (POSIX only):

git clone https://github.com/WyattBlue/pyav.git
cd pyav

source scripts/activate.sh
pip install -U -r tests/requirements.txt
./scripts/build-deps
make
deactivate
pip install .

Motivations For a Fork

Unlike PyAV (The original repo), this fork offers the following benefits:

• Wheels for Python 3.12
• Support for Cython 3
• Support for FFmpeg 6, and beyond
• Expanded support for different pixel formats
• Being maintained