# Install ffmate with Homebrew

FFmpeg automation layer. Version 2.0.18 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:ffmate
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ffmate
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:ffmate
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.18
- **Source summary:** FFmpeg automation layer
- **Homepage:** <https://docs.ffmate.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/welovemedia/ffmate>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T20:54:34-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ffmate (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.0.18
## Project history and usage

FFmate is a newer FFmpeg automation layer aimed at turning one-off command-line transcoding into a service-style workflow with a REST API, web UI, webhooks, watch folders, presets, queueing, and script hooks.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in January 2025. Its README describes FFmate as an automation layer built on top of FFmpeg, designed both to simplify transcoding and to act as an extensible engine for custom media workflows.

### Adoption history

Source-backed public adoption history is still thin because the project is young. The official repository and docs position it for developers integrating transcoding into applications and services rather than as a long-established Unix multimedia primitive.

### How it is used

The usual workflow is to run FFmate as a server, then submit and manage tasks through its REST API, web UI, watchfolder endpoints, webhooks, presets, and pre/post-processing scripts while FFmpeg remains the external media engine.

### Why package nerds care

For package users, FFmate matters as a packaged orchestration layer around FFmpeg: it is not another codec toolkit, but a daemon/API surface for repeatable media pipelines.

### Timeline

- 2025: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2025-2026: Official documentation and README describe FFmate as an FFmpeg-based automation layer with API, UI, queues, watchfolders, presets, webhooks, and script hooks.

### Related projects

- FFmpeg is the underlying transcoding engine that FFmate automates.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/welovemedia/ffmate>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/welovemedia/ffmate>
- <https://docs.ffmate.io/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ffmate.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ffmate.yml)


## Sources

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- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph