


There are some libraries on top of the FFmpeg like ffcreator and fluent-ffmpeg which create an abstraction on top of FFmpeg but you will still need FFmpeg installed on the OS level. The problem is FFmpeg is not any npm module that you can just install and use. Long story short, if you need to work with audio and video conversion or modification, you will need this. One good example of this is FFmpeg which is described in their documentation as:Ī complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. However, for some specific use cases, we need to access the OS-level applications which makes it a little bit complicated. Usually, when we are running a Node.js application, all of the required parts for that application are inside the npm packages which go inside the node_modules folder. Today we will learn how we can use FFmpeg with Node.js inside a Docker container.
