Otherwise, it will attempt to call ffmpeg directly (so it should be in your PATH ). If the FFMPEG_PATH environment variable is set, fluent-ffmpeg will use it as the full path to the ffmpeg executable.

It may work with previous versions but several features won't be available (and the library is not tested with lower versions anylonger). Prerequisites ffmpeg and ffprobe fluent-ffmpeg requires ffmpeg >= 0.9 to work. $ git submodule add git:///schaermu/node-fluent-ffmpeg.git vendor/fluent-ffmpeg Usage You will find a lot of usage examples (including a real-time streaming example using flowplayer and express !) in the examples folder. $ npm install fluent-ffmpeg Or as a submodule: You can still access the code and documentation for fluent-ffmpeg 1.7 here.

This is the documentation for fluent-ffmpeg 2.x.

In order to be able to use this module, make sure you have ffmpeg installed on your system (including all necessary encoding libraries like libmp3lame or libx264). Fluent ffmpeg-API for node.js This library abstracts the complex command-line usage of ffmpeg into a fluent, easy to use node.js module.

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