Welcome to PFFmpeg¶

Progress bar for FFmpeg

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Introduction¶

The FFmpeg command line tool is a universal media converter. It can read a wide variety of inputs, filter and transcode them into a plethora of output formats. For new user it can be extremely convoluted to use, and read the output. When converting a video file for the first time, understanding the progress of the current task from the output is quite the confusing task.

This is where PFFmpeg comes in. It's CLI is just on top of FFmpeg's, and delegates everything to it. The output of the FFmpeg is parsed and "patched" to display a progress bar while running an action such as a video compression. PFFmpeg philosophy is to alter as little as possible the FFmpeg experience, and simply add the progress bar when needed, unlike other project who just wrap and hide all of the output behind a progress bar. In terms of style, the rich progress bar was chosen.

For more information on installation and usage, head to the Getting started section!

Visit the Help page if you are looking for help.

How to contribute¶

Contributions are welcome, and every help is greatly appreciated! If you want to contribute to this project please check the contributing section.

Everyone contributing to this project is expected to treat other people with respect, and more generally to follow the guidelines articulated by our code of conduct.

History¶

We keep a changelog to record the changes happening, if you have any questions about any changes that have been made, don't hesitate to go take a look.

License¶

Distributed under the MIT license. See License for more information.