Use this command to install Jellyfin FFmpeg:

winget install --id=Jellyfin.FFmpeg -e

FFmpeg for Jellyfin with custom extensions and enhancements

Jellyfin FFmpeg is a multimedia processing tool designed to enhance video and audio transcoding capabilities within the Jellyfin platform. Built upon the FFmpeg framework, it includes custom extensions and optimizations tailored for seamless integration with Jellyfin, ensuring efficient media streaming and playback.

Key Features:

Custom extensions that improve compatibility and performance for Jellyfin-specific use cases.
Enhanced transcoding quality and speed through optimized builds.
Support for a wide range of video, audio, and subtitle formats to ensure broad compatibility.
Hardware acceleration support for faster processing on supported devices.
Integration with Jellyfin's ecosystem for streamlined media management.

Ideal for content creators, streamers, and media enthusiasts who use Jellyfin to host or consume multimedia content. This tool helps reduce server load during transcoding while maintaining high-quality output, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable user experience. It can be installed via winget for easy setup on compatible systems.

README

FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.

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