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imageio-ffmpeg
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FFMPEG wrapper for Python.
Note that the platform-specific wheels contain the binary executable of ffmpeg, which makes this package around 60 MiB in size. I guess that's the cost for being able to read/write video files.
For Linux users: the above is not the case when installing via your Linux package manager (if that is possible), because this package would simply depend on ffmpeg in that case.
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FFMPEG wrapper for Python
We found that imageio-ffmpeg demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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