First release of ffmpeg-ruby 1
ffmpeg-ruby is a ruby C extension binding to ffmpeg/libav* library.
It's main purpose (at least for now) is to extract frame in order to make video thumbnails. It also give access to main video attributes (frame rate, bit rate, duration, codecs, ...)
I've been working on this for some time now but I finally took the time to clean and package it
You can checkout the code with git :
git clone git://github.com/gwik/ffmpeg-ruby.git
Here is a example of what it can do : creating an animated gif from a video
I've been working on a similar project, but using RubyInline to reduce the amount of heavy C lifting I have to do. I'm primarily interested in making it easy to transcode video. Would you like to collaborate?