[FEATURE REQUEST] Consider dropping/replacing ffmpeg-python dependency because of future transitive dependency

[xgqt]

Feature Request

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Description

Please consider dropping ffmpeg-python depending on the future library.

There is a fix to patch ffmpeg-python to remove the dependency but the repo did not see any PR merged since 2022, so I am sceptic that it will receive the fix.

See also: https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/pull/795

Citing the Gentoo bugreport for future:

Unmaintained with last release in 2019.  We already patched it to work
with Python 3.9+.  The upstream code is also vulnerable
to CVE-2022-40899.  Above all, this library is completely redundant
to packages not supporting Python 2 anymore.

Please see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/888271

[deepjyoti30]

@xgqt Thanks for the request. If I have to drop ffmpeg-python, I will have to check for some alternative that I can use in it's place.

Seems like the package was abandoned a while back. Will have to look for some fork of it that can be used as a possible alternative.

[xgqt]

This one looks ok, they even have almost identical example in the README: https://github.com/jonghwanhyeon/python-ffmpeg

There are also:

• https://github.com/python-ffmpegio/python-ffmpegio
• https://github.com/deuteronomy-works/pyffmpeg

[emilazy]

You may also want to consider https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV.