CodeBrix.VideoProcessing.MitLicenseForever 1.0.241.68

CodeBrix.VideoProcessing

A fully managed, cross-platform FFmpeg/FFprobe wrapper library for .NET that makes media analysis and conversion easy. CodeBrix.VideoProcessing is a port of the popular FFMpegCore library (with the Instances process wrapper vendored directly in), exposing the same functionality under the CodeBrix.VideoProcessing namespace. CodeBrix.VideoProcessing's only NuGet dependency is CodeBrix.Imaging (itself a fully managed, cross-platform, dependency-free CodeBrix library), used by the in-memory image bridge; it is provided as a .NET 10 library and associated CodeBrix.VideoProcessing.MitLicenseForever NuGet package.

CodeBrix.VideoProcessing supports applications and assemblies that target Microsoft .NET version 10.0 and later. Microsoft .NET version 10.0 is a Long-Term Supported (LTS) version of .NET, and was released on Nov 11, 2025; and will be actively supported by Microsoft until Nov 14, 2028. Please update your C#/.NET code and projects to the latest LTS version of Microsoft .NET.

Runtime prerequisite: like FFMpegCore, this library shells out to the ffmpeg and ffprobe executables — they must be installed and discoverable (on the PATH, or configured via GlobalFFOptions). The library itself is fully managed; it does not bundle the FFmpeg binaries.

CodeBrix.VideoProcessing supports:

• Analysing media files and streams with FFprobe (FFProbe.Analyse / AnalyseAsync) — duration, streams, codecs, resolution, bitrate, and more
• Converting, transcoding and muxing video and audio (FFMpeg / FFMpegArguments)
• A fluent argument builder covering scaling, cropping, seeking, bitrate, codecs, filters, hardware acceleration, concatenation, and dozens of other options
• Extracting single-frame snapshots and animated GIF snapshots
• Piping raw audio/video frames into and out of FFmpeg via IPipeSource / IPipeSink
• Building and serialising FFmpeg metadata (MetaDataBuilder)
• A built-in, elegant process wrapper (the vendored CodeBrix.VideoProcessing.Instances namespace)
• An in-memory image bridge under CodeBrix.VideoProcessing.Imaging (built on CodeBrix.Imaging): grab a snapshot as a CodeBrix.Imaging image (FFMpegImage.Snapshot), feed images into FFmpeg as frames (ImageVideoFrameWrapper), or mux an image + audio into a video (ImageExtensions.AddAudio)

Sample Code

Analyse a media file

using CodeBrix.VideoProcessing;

var info = FFProbe.Analyse("input.mp4");

Console.WriteLine($"Duration: {info.Duration}");
Console.WriteLine($"Video codec: {info.PrimaryVideoStream?.CodecName}");
Console.WriteLine($"Resolution: {info.PrimaryVideoStream?.Width}x{info.PrimaryVideoStream?.Height}");

Convert a video

using CodeBrix.VideoProcessing;
using CodeBrix.VideoProcessing.Enums;

FFMpegArguments
    .FromFileInput("input.webm")
    .OutputToFile("output.mp4", overwrite: true, options => options
        .WithVideoCodec(VideoCodec.LibX264)
        .WithConstantRateFactor(21)
        .WithAudioCodec(AudioCodec.Aac))
    .ProcessSynchronously();

Save a thumbnail

using System.Drawing;
using CodeBrix.VideoProcessing;

FFMpeg.Snapshot("input.mp4", "thumbnail.png", new Size(1920, 1080), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));

License

The project is licensed under the MIT License. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

CodeBrix.VideoProcessing incorporates source code from the FFMpegCore and Instances projects, both of which are licensed under the MIT License. See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt for full attribution and license texts.