Installation

Requirements

  • Linux or MacOS, Windows 10, 11. For Windows, WSL (Ubuntu) recommended.
  • latest ffmpeg (3.4.3-2 or higher, lower versions may still work)
  • nVidia graphics card with latest nVidia CUDA drivers (optional)
  • Intel CPU with QSV enabled (optional)
  • Python 3 (3.6 or higher)

Support

Please log issues or questions via the github home page for now.

Video Tutorials: Part 1 - Linux Setup, Part 2 - Usage

Installation

There are a few possible ways to install a python app - one of these should work for you.

Linux (Ubuntu & others), Windows, MacOS

The confusion is due to the fact that not all distributions or OS’s install pip3 by default. Either way, pytranscoder is available in the pypi repo.

pip3 install --user pytranscoder-ffmpeg
# or...
python3 -m pip install --user pytranscoder-ffmpeg

After installing you will find documentation in $HOME/.local/shared/doc/pytranscoder (on Linux/MacOS) and in $HOME/AppData/Python/pythonversion/shared/doc/pytranscoder** (on Windows). Also available online

Upgrading

Whatever method above for installing works for you, just use the –upgrade option to update, ie:

pip3 install --upgrade pytranscoder-ffmpeg