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by areactnativedev 2240 days ago
Looks great, from looking at the use cases and examples.

What scares me is the requirement to have ffmpeg and ffprobe installed and available of course. Had a painful experience installing ffmpeg on Jessie Light on a rpi in the past.

If you know a good and easy way, or have a link to such a way, to install these on Mac / Windows / Ubuntu I think adding it to your readme could help you gain traction outside of people who already have some of the capacities needed to do such edits.

Edit: precised that I'm not looking for a way to install ffmpeg, I was just suggesting that pointing to a way in the README would be an improvement IMHO.

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I use static builds from [0] for my Rockchip RK3368. You have to be okay with trusting those builds though.

[0] https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

tbh, what turned me off is having to have Node.js installed
I might add the ffmpeg-static npm package, then no need for system ffmpeg. But that package does not work on raspberry pi, so yeah.. Downloading and installing static ffmpeg builds from ffmpeg.org is pretty easy these days
apt install ffmpeg?
Yep, maybe that's all one would have to add in the readme for Linux guys