fluent-ffmpeg is a zero-dependency wrapper for ffmpeg that aims at simplifying its usage with Node.js.

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Make sure ffmpeg is installed. You can set the FFMPEG_PATH environment variable if it is not in your PATH.

$ npm install fluent-ffmpeg

Note: this is the documentation for fluent-ffmpeg version 3. The API was completely rewritten. If you want to migrate from fluent-ffmpeg version 2, you will have to completely rewrite your calls.

import ffmpeg from 'fluent-ffmpeg'

async function convertVideo() {
  try {
    await ffmpeg({
      input: 'path/to/input.avi',
      output: 'path/to/output.mp4'
    }).run()

    console.log('Done')
  } catch (e) {
    console.log('Error:', e)
  }
}