nu-ffmpeg

Utility commands for working with ffmpeg in nushell.

Capabilities

• Return tables from ffprobe
• ffprobe multiple files at once
• Use streams, streams video, and streams audio to filter ffprobe output
• get the dimensions of a video stream as a record
• Tab-completion for filter options. i.e. fps --round<tab> will yield zero inf down up near
• Apply and parse complex filters to a video (Work In Progress)

Setup

The ffmpeg and ffprobe commands are required to be installed and available in your path; they are not installed for you.

Currently only nushell version 0.89.0 is supported.

After that, clone this repository and add the following code to your scripts, or to your config.nu file:

use <path-to-repository>/ffprobe
use <path-to-repository>/filters *

FFProbe

Commands

name	usage
ffprobe	Run ffprobe on a list of files and return the output as a table.
ffprobe dimensions	Get the dimensions of a video stream
ffprobe streams	Retrieve all the streams from a list of ffprobe outputs
ffprobe streams audio	Retrieve all the audio streams from a list of ffprobe outputs
ffprobe streams video	Retrieve all the video streams from a list of ffprobe outputs

FFMpeg

Supported Filters

name	usage
crop	Crop the input video to given dimensions.
fps	Convert the video to specified constant frame rate by duplicating or dropping frames as necessary.
loop	loop video frames
overlay	Overlay one video on top of another.
split
vflip	Flip the input video vertically.