Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
I built a CLI tool that lets you do common video/audio operations without remembering ffmpeg syntax.
Instead of:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos" -loop 0 output.gif
You write:
ff convert video.mp4 to gif
More examples:
ff compress video.mp4 to 10mb
ff trim video.mp4 from 0:30 to 1:00
ff extract audio from video.mp4
ff resize video.mp4 to 720p
ff speed up video.mp4 by 2x
ff reverse video.mp4
There are similar tools that use LLMs (wtffmpeg, llmpeg, ai-ffmpeg-cli), but they require API keys, cost money, and have latency.
Ez FFmpeg is different:
– No AI – just regex pattern matching
– Instant – no API calls
– Free – no tokens
– Offline – works without internet
It handles ~20 common operations that cover 90% of what developers actually do with ffmpeg. For edge cases, you still need ffmpeg directly.
Interactive mode (just type ff) shows media files in your current folder with typeahead search.
npm install -g ezff
