The vidformer Tools

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 VoD server (i.e., for yrden)
    • 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.

  • yrden: A vidformer server for local use

    • Designed for local single-tenant use
    • Enables broad drop-in cv2 compatability
    • Supports basic Video on Demand hosting

  • igni: A vidformer server for the cloud

    • An in progress 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.