The vidformer modules

vidformer is a highly modular suite of tools that work together:

• vidformer-py: A Python 🐍 client for declarative video synthesis

  • Provides an easy-to-use library for symbolically representing transformed videos
  • Acts as a client for a vidformer server
  • Using vidformer-py is the best place to get started

• libvidformer: The core data-oriented declarative video editing library

  • An embedded video processing execution engine with low-level interfaces
  • Systems code, written in Rust 🦀
  • You should use if: You are building a VDBMS or other multimodal data-system infrastructure.
  • You should not use if: You just want to use vidformer in your workflows or projects.

• vidformer-igni: The vidformer server

  • A multi-tenant scale-out server
  • Designed for Video on Demand only
    • Does not support full-video exports
    • All video sources must be over the network, not local
  • Enables live streaming and waiting on external dependencies for even lower time-to-playback latency

Client libraries in other languages: Writing a vidformer client library for other languages is simple. It's a few hundred lines of code, and you just have to construct some JSON. Contributions or suggestions for other languages are welcome.