local-only server

The server can only run on the client’s local machine because it depends on local resources.

Integrations

Provides tools for video manipulation including searching, clipping, concatenating, playing, overlaying, and scaling videos through FFmpeg's command line capabilities.
Offers platform support for macOS (both ARM64 and x86_64 architectures), allowing the video manipulation tools to function on Apple's desktop operating system.

FFmpeg-MCP

Using ffmpeg command line to achieve an mcp server, can be very convenient, through the dialogue to achieve the local video search, tailoring, stitching, playback and other functions

Support Tools

The server implements the following tools:

find_video_path The parameters are directory and file name, file name can be complete, or is not suffixed, recursive search in the directory, return the full path
get_video_info The parameters are video path, return the video info, linkes duration/fps/codec/width/height.
clip_video The parameter is the file path, start time, end time or duration, and returns the trimmed file path
concat_videos The parameters are the list of files, the output path, and if the video elements in the list of files, such as width, height, frame rate, etc., are consistent, quick mode synthesis is automatically used
play_video Play video/audio with ffplay, support many format, like mov/mp4/avi/mkv/3gp, video_path: video path speed: play rate loop: play count
overlay_video Two video overlay. background_video: backgroud video path overlay_video: front video path output_path: output video path position: relative location dx: x offset dy: y offset
scale_video Video scale. video_path: in video path width: out video width, -2 keep aspect height: out video height, -2 keep aspect output_path: output video path

Installation procedure

Download project

git clone  https://github.com/video-creator/ffmpeg-mcp.git
cd ffmpeg-mcp
uv sync

Configuration in Cline

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ffmpeg-mcp": {
      "autoApprove": [],
      "disabled": false,
      "timeout": 60,
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/Users/xxx/Downloads/ffmpeg-mcp",
        "run",
        "ffmpeg-mcp"
      ],
      "transportType": "stdio"
    }
  }
}

Note: the value:/Users/XXX/Downloads/ffmpeg in args need to replace the actual download ffmpeg-mcp directory

Supported platforms

Currently, only macos platforms are supported, including ARM64 or x86_64

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Tools

An MCP server providing video processing capabilities through FFmpeg, enabling dialog-based local video search, trimming, concatenation, and playback functionalities.

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