Not really bindings?

Hi!

I’m not really an expert of the library, but I stumbled here looking for “real” python libraries that were using ffmpeg bindings. By looking around a bit, it seems instead that what you’re doing is really just subprocessing (eg: https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/blob/master/ffmpeg/_run.py ) while in the Readme of this repo you describe it as Python bindings for FFmpeg .

A binding is generally considered as a way to make calls from one programming language to the other, generally using foreign function interfaces, see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_binding .

So I came here expecting that this library was making calls to the ffmpeg C core from a python API, which would have been super cool! Instead, it seems to be a wrapper over the command line interface. Can you tell me if my understanding of how this library really works is correct?

Thanks!

Valerio

[Saya47]

You are correct, it’s a wrapper. From the readme:

You can run stream.get_args() before stream.run() to retrieve the command line arguments that will be passed to ffmpeg. You can also run stream.compile() that also includes the ffmpeg executable as the first argument.

[radiolondra]

Good luck is the right answer… there are so many posts here without any answer from months!