Highlights

• Safe. Every container parser is safe Rust with limits on memory and work, so a damaged or hostile file gives an error, never a crash. Safety
• Fast. CoreAV reads only the bytes a job needs, from a local file or an https:// URL, and every speed claim is measured against FFmpeg in the open. Measurements
• Drop-in. coreav ffprobe and coreav ffmpeg take the command lines your scripts already run, and hand any line CoreAV doesn’t run natively to the FFmpeg installed on the machine. Commands
• Everywhere. Native binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows, and an npm package that runs as WebAssembly wherever else Node.js runs. Platforms

Installation

Today you can only build CoreAV from source. Release binaries and the npm package come with 0.1.0.

With Rust 1.89 or later, git, and a C compiler installed:

git clone https://github.com/coreav-dev/coreav
cd coreav
cargo install --locked --path crates/coreav-cli --profile dist

Cargo puts coreav in ~/.cargo/bin.…