ffmpeg.js is a JavaScript port of the FFmpeg multimedia framework compiled with Emscripten, enabling video and audio processing directly within browsers or Node.js environments. It provides prebuilt modules optimized for web use, balancing performance and file size while supporting common encoding and decoding tasks. By running entirely in JavaScript through asm.js, it allows developers to manipulate media files without requiring native binaries or server-side processing. The library supports different builds tailored for formats like WebM and MP4, including worker-based versions for improved performance in web applications. It exposes a programmatic API that mirrors FFmpeg command-line behavior, allowing developers to pass arguments and handle input and output streams in memory. This makes it especially useful for browser-based editors, converters, and multimedia tools. Overall, ffmpeg.js brings powerful media processing capabilities to client-side environments with minimal setup.
Features
- FFmpeg functionality ported to JavaScript using Emscripten
- Runs in browser and Node.js without native dependencies
- Support for WebM and MP4 encoding and decoding
- Web Worker versions for improved performance
- In-memory file processing without disk access
- API compatible with FFmpeg-style command arguments