FFmpeg 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; Fabrice Bellard (2000).

Installation

# On Linux / MacOS
$ npm i -g ffmpeg.sh
# On Windows
$ npm i -g ffmpeg.cmd

Once installed, the ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay commands will be available globally.

# Use ffmpeg
$ ffmpeg --help