@ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64

What is @ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64?

@ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64 is an npm package that provides a precompiled FFmpeg binary for Linux x64 systems. It allows developers to easily include FFmpeg in their Node.js projects without needing to compile it from source. FFmpeg is a powerful multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play almost anything that humans and machines have created.

What are @ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64's main functionalities?

Video Conversion

This feature allows you to convert video files from one format to another. The code sample demonstrates converting an MP4 file to an AVI file using the FFmpeg binary provided by the package.

const ffmpegPath = require('@ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64').path;
const { exec } = require('child_process');

exec(`${ffmpegPath} -i input.mp4 output.avi`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
  if (error) {
    console.error(`Error: ${error.message}`);
    return;
  }
  if (stderr) {
    console.error(`Stderr: ${stderr}`);
    return;
  }
  console.log(`Stdout: ${stdout}`);
});

Audio Extraction

This feature allows you to extract audio from a video file. The code sample demonstrates extracting the audio from an MP4 file and saving it as an MP3 file.

const ffmpegPath = require('@ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64').path;
const { exec } = require('child_process');

exec(`${ffmpegPath} -i input.mp4 -q:a 0 -map a output.mp3`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
  if (error) {
    console.error(`Error: ${error.message}`);
    return;
  }
  if (stderr) {
    console.error(`Stderr: ${stderr}`);
    return;
  }
  console.log(`Stdout: ${stdout}`);
});

Video Compression

This feature allows you to compress video files to reduce their size. The code sample demonstrates compressing an MP4 file using the H.265 codec with a constant rate factor (CRF) of 28.

const ffmpegPath = require('@ffmpeg-installer/linux-x64').path;
const { exec } = require('child_process');

exec(`${ffmpegPath} -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 output.mp4`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
  if (error) {
    console.error(`Error: ${error.message}`);
    return;
  }
  if (stderr) {
    console.error(`Stderr: ${stderr}`);
    return;
  }
  console.log(`Stdout: ${stdout}`);
});

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README

Do not use directly, use ffmpeg-installer:

npm install --save @ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg