FFmpeg MCP

Communityby Community (video-creator)freeverified Aug 11, 2026

Conversational FFmpeg: trim, concat, overlay, scale, and extract frames locally.

What it does

Wraps the FFmpeg CLI as MCP tools for finding, probing, cutting, merging, compositing, and resizing local video files. The workhorse for agent-side post tasks on generated clips — no cloud upload, no credits.

Connect

Local install: uv --directory /path/to/ffmpeg-mcp run ffmpeg-mcp (after cloning the repo)

Auth: none

Tools you'll see

find_video_pathget_video_infoclip_videoconcat_videosoverlay_videoscale_videoextract_frames_from_video

Field notes

142 stars, last pushed May 20 2026 — nearly three months quiet, though still the best-maintained thin FFmpeg wrapper. Caveats: README states macOS only, and install means cloning the repo (no published package). The older egoist/ffmpeg-mcp has been dormant since Mar 2025. Cross-platform alternatives: kevinwatt/ffmpeg-mcp-lite (26 stars, pushed May 2026) and Kinocut (listed here under the mcp-video slug), which is far more active and adds guardrails on top of FFmpeg.

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