Video transcoding nodejs

Simple tutorial of video transcoding with fluent-ffmpeg.

Requirments

• Nodejs versions with worker_threads & esmodule support
• ffmpeg ;
• Optional: Hardware acceleration requirements (Nvidia GPU with nvenc support Or Apple Silicon devices)

Features

• h264 compression with a crf of 28,
• Both single thread(singlethreaded.js) and multi-thread workloads(index.js&)
• Resizing to any resolution (when provided an array of resolutions)
• Conversion to mp4
• Hardware accelerated video compression with cuda support(using h264_nevc) && videotool box for Mac

usage

Note:

• Before testing, create a folder named compressed in the root directory.
• For GPU acceleration, follow the instructions here to add hardware acceleration support to ffmpeg. (Nividia only).

1. single threaded
   

 node singlethreaded.js [InputFilenamewithExt]

2. Multithreaded workload.
   

 node  index.js [InputFilenamewithExt]

3. Clean up the example out files

  ./cleanup.sh 

4. Compare video file sizes of original and compressed;

 ./checkVideoSize.sh

The End

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