FFmpeg Frontend

A frontend for FFmpeg, making frontend asset processing workflows easy and super fast. Allows conversions of images and videos and generation of SVGs from images. FFmpeg-frontend is written in Rust using Tauri and supports metadata / exif extraction and editing.

Features

• Media conversion: Transcode and transform images and video through FFmpeg-driven pipelines from a desktop UI.
• SVG generation: Produce SVGs from image sources where the workflow supports it.
• Metadata & EXIF: Inspect and edit metadata and EXIF without leaving the app.
• Fast local processing: Workloads run through FFmpeg on your machine instead of round-trips to a cloud service.

Architecture

• Tauri application: A lightweight desktop shell with a webview frontend and a Rust backend that invokes FFmpeg and native tooling.
• FFmpeg at the core: The same processing engine used in production media pipelines, exposed through the UI instead of raw CLI usage.
• Cross-platform desktop: One codebase targets multiple OSes via Tauri’s packaging model.

Tech Stack

• FFmpeg: Encoding, decoding, filters, and format conversion for images and video.
• Rust: Backend logic, process orchestration, and safe integration with system APIs.
• Tauri: Desktop app framework combining a Rust core with a web frontend.
• WebAssembly: Where used in the stack for performance-critical or portable logic in the UI layer.