ARargsnd·Mar 20, 2026
It looks like that project is dead, some googling turned up this one which seems active and popular
https://github.com/pyav-org/pyav
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PyAV
Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg's libraries.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI'm working on a project to revive old QTVR movies[1].
After writing a couple of python decoders [2] for movie encodings from the 90's it got old quickly.
As luck would have it, FFmpeg has support for almost all video encodings under the sun. For my usecase I wanted to send one frame per time to FFmpeg to decode.
Luckily I found PyAV[3]. It's a Cython project which binds to FFmpeg.
Which brings me to the article. It reads more like a C bad, rust good.
Cythons tag line is: 'Cython gives you the combined power of Python and C`
Just wanting speed and less memory bugs, then rust will fare better. If you want to have the combined power of Python and C then Cython is
pretty cool.
[1] https://github.com/rvanlaar/QTVR
[2] https://github.com/rvanlaar/QTVR/tree/master/qtvr/decoders
[3] https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV
In Some reasons to avoid CythonFYI, the term "binding" is slightly misleading here. This is not bindings for the FFMPEG libraries, it's just an API frontend to invoke the `ffmpeg` command.
For actual python bindings check out PyAV [0]
[0] https://github.com/mikeboers/PyAV
In Ffmpeg-Python: Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering supportAbsolutely, might as well enjoy the rich Python ecosystem!
Starting with aiortc 0.9.9, there is now also deep integration with PyAV for all your FFmpeg needs.
- At the lowest level : aiortc uses PyAV's AudioFrame and VideoFrame class, and PyAV is soon to gain more ndarray converters: https://github.com/mikeboers/PyAV/pull/415
- At a higher level : aiortc provides MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder classes to read or write audio/video
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