Announcement: roadmap for fluent-ffmpeg v3

[njoyard]

Hey there,

I'm planning to do a bunch of maintenance on this package and publish a version 3 in the coming weeks, hopefully before 2024.

The codebase is now pretty old and it is long overdue for some refactors.

Here is a rough outline of what version 3 will include. This is not a commitment, just a bunch of ideas.

• Better CI (well, at least working CI) and package releases using Github Actions
• API cleanup
• Code refactors to move fluent-ffmpeg to more modern javascript
• TS types at least, maybe plain Typescript
• Promise-based API
• Dropping some parts of the lib that no longer really make sense now (flvtool stuff, presets)

This will most likely introduce incompatibilities with code using version 2. As a consequence when v3 is released I will probably close all existing pull requests (some of them will be merged first, when they make sense).

The project is still lacking long-term maintainers and workforce to triage and answer issues. There have been some proposals in #755 but unfortunately they came at times where I was not really involved on the project nor watching answers, so if some of you reading this feel up to the task, drop a comment there.

[bgrand-ch]

Amazing! Thanks a lot 💪

[vijaykumar1710]

Great, we need this repo to live long. I am willing to contribute let me know if i can pick something. I am using this library in one of my projects. I hope many people still use it.

[globalexport]

It's a really helpful tool to handle ffmpeg. I hope it will get the maintenance it deserves.

[klesun]

Is this still in plans? Or we better not expect changes in the API and stick to the v2?

[njoyard]

Yep. It's late, as always, due to real life stuff :)

[lenoxys]

hello, thanks for your work on it! It is possible to provide v3 as beta tagged in npmjs ? At least, we can already work on it without rebuilding on our side.

but anyway thanks !

[njoyard]

There will be an alpha as soon as it is usable