FFmpeg + OpenCV Integration Guide

Use this skill when FFmpeg handles video I/O and OpenCV handles image processing. This SKILL is a lean orchestrator; full pipe patterns, library examples, and Modal recipes are preserved in references/opencv-pipelines-and-libraries.md.

When to Use

• Decode with FFmpeg and process frames with OpenCV
• Encode OpenCV-generated/processed frames with FFmpeg
• Compare cv2.VideoCapture, subprocess pipes, PyAV, ffmpegcv, VidGear, and Decord
• Fix RGB/BGR color bugs or (height, width) dimension-order bugs
• Preserve audio while replacing processed video frames
• Build GPU-assisted video I/O around CPU OpenCV processing

Library Selection