No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation.

It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. In the documentation, we read:įFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.

Manipulating a video with Node.js itself would be extremely hard, so instead we are going to use the most popular video manipulation tool: FFmpeg. We are going to take a closer look at how to implement both of these approaches. Another popular way of creating a preview is to take a few frames from a video and make a slideshow. YouTube, for instance, plays a 3- to 4-second excerpt from a video whenever users hover over its thumbnail. Generating video previews with Node.js and FFmpegĮvery website that deals with video streaming in any way has a way of showing a short preview of a video without actually playing it. Maciej Cieślar Follow A JavaScript developer and a blogger at.

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