What is FFmate?

FFmate is a modern and powerful automation layer built on top of FFmpeg—designed to make video and audio transcoding simpler, smarter, and easier to integrate.

While FFmpeg is the industry standard for media encoding and conversion, it can be complex to use directly—especially at scale.

With FFmate, you get all the raw power of FFmpeg—plus the tools you need to automate, monitor, and scale your workflows with ease.

Whether you’re a developer building a media pipeline, a workflow engineer managing a farm of agents, or a non-technical user needing simple batch conversions, FFmate is designed to work for you.

🚀 Key Features

• Queueing System – Submit and manage multiple concurrent FFmpeg jobs efficiently.
• Dynamic Filename Wildcards – Enable smart and customizable output file naming.
• Webhook Notifications – Receive real-time updates for seamless integration with external workflows.
• Watchfolder – Automatically detect and process new files as they appear.
• Pre & Post Processing Actions – Execute custom commands or scripts before and after transcoding.
• Preconfigured Presets – Simplify common media conversion tasks with ready-to-use settings.
• Web UI – Monitor and configure transcoding workflows with an intuitive interface.

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📌 Use Cases

📽️ Automated Media Transcoding

Easily automate common media processing tasks like video conversion, audio extraction, and thumbnail generation.
FFmate allows you to submit multiple FFmpeg jobs at once and handles them efficiently through a built-in queueing system.
Perfect for post-production pipelines, cloud workflows, or any scenario where repetitive transcoding needs to be streamlined.

⚙️ Workflow & Pipeline Automation

Use FFmate’s webhook system to sync with:

• Internal automation tools
• Media asset management (MAM) platforms
• Cloud-based production or publishing workflows

No polling required—just plug in your endpoint and go.

☁️ Scalable FFmpeg Job Management

Run FFmate as a centralized, API-first backend for FFmpeg job orchestration.
You can scale the number of simultaneous jobs based on available resources—without needing to manage multiple agents.
With full control over job priority, queuing, and task lifecycle, FFmate is ideal for high-volume transcoding environments where reliability and automation matter.

Use it to power:

• Cloud-based encoding workflows.
• Media conversion microservices.
• Internal development tools that need FFmpeg processing on demand.

🗂️ Drop Folder Ingest (Watchfolder)

Set up a watchfolder to automatically detect new files and trigger predefined processing workflows—perfect for camera card offloads, shared storage, or ingest pipelines.