FFmpeg MCP

What it does

Wraps the FFmpeg CLI as MCP tools for finding, probing, cutting, merging, compositing, and resizing local video files. A thin, readable surface for agent-side post on generated clips — no cloud upload, no credits — but it has had no commits since May 2026 and Kinocut now covers the same ground with more care.

Connect

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

Sample tools

Field notes

153 stars, last pushed May 20 2026 — nearly five months without a commit as of 13 Oct 2026, and the last commit was a security fix (shlex-quoting paths against FFmpeg argument injection, CWE-88), so treat that as the floor of its hardening rather than a maintained baseline. Caveats: README states macOS only (ARM64 or x86_64), and install means cloning the repo and running `uv sync` — there is no published package, so the stdio command needs your own checkout path. The README also lists a play_video tool that shells out to ffplay, which does nothing useful on a headless agent box. The older egoist/ffmpeg-mcp has been dormant since Mar 2025. Alternatives: kevinwatt/ffmpeg-mcp-lite (27 stars, last pushed May 8 2026 — no more current than this one) and Kinocut (listed here under the mcp-video slug), which is cross-platform, actively released, and adds guardrails on top of FFmpeg. On current evidence Kinocut is the better default and this entry is the minimal-surface fallback.

Also in Editing & Post

Used in

Local Edit Bay · Open Lab · Edit local footage without handing over the source library · Run a hackable open film lab

Pairs well with