# mcp-ffmpeg

> A Model Context Protocol server for FFmpeg media processing

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-ffmpeg-2/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/priyanshum143/MCP-FFMPEG
- repository: https://github.com/priyanshum143/MCP-FFMPEG
- version: 0.1.6
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: audio, ffmpeg, mcp, processing, video
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-ffmpeg

### Description (declared)

# MCP-FFMPEG

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and CLI for running FFmpeg jobs via a job queue with configurable parallel workers.

## Features

- **Job queue** — Enqueue video jobs; workers process them in the background.
- **Parallel workers** — Run multiple jobs at once (number set in config).
- **Two interfaces**
  - **CLI** — Interactive menu to pick an action and enter parameters.
  - **MCP server** — Tools for AI assistants (e.g. Claude Desktop) to enqueue and check jobs.
- **Actions**
  - **Trim** — Cut a segment from a video (start time + duration).
  - **Change video format** — Convert to another container (e.g. mp4 → mkv) without re-encoding.
  - **Change resolution** — Convert to another resolution, height and width provided by user.
  - **Change Subtitle format** — Convert to another subtitle format (e.g. srt -> vtt).
  - **Extract Audio** - Extract audio from an input video file
- **Caching** — Same inputs produce the same job ID; completed jobs are reused unless `force_run` is used.

## Requirements

- **Python** 3.13+
- **FFmpeg** — Must be on your system PATH or set via `FFMPEG_PATH` (see [Configuration](#configuration)).

## Installation

Choose one of the following:

### Option 1: Install from PyPI

```bash
pip install mcp-ffmpeg
```

Or with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):

```bash
uv add mcp-ffmpeg
```

### Option 2: Clone the repository

```bash
git clone https://github.com/priyanshum143/MCP-FFMPEG.git
cd MCP-FFMPEG
```

Then install from the project root:

```bash
# With uv
uv sync

# Or with pip (editable install)
pip install -e .
```

## Configuration

- **FFmpeg path**  
  - Default: use `ffmpeg` from system PATH.  
  - Optional: set env var `FFMPEG_PATH` to the full path of the FFmpeg executable (e.g. for Claude Desktop).

- **Worker and paths**  
  Edit `src/MCP_ffmpeg/utils/variables.py` (class `CommonVariables`):
  - `PARALLEL_EXECUTIONS_ALLOWED` — Number of jobs that can run at once (default: 3).
  - `WORKER_RE_RUN_TIME` — Sec…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.video-editing (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-ffmpeg/ (first seen 2026-09-10T01:20:45.855Z)

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