Install

Today you can only build CoreAV from source. Release binaries and the npm package come with 0.1.0.

Build from source

You need Rust 1.89 or later (rustup), git, and a C compiler for the TLS library that reads https:// inputs.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/coreav-dev/coreav
cd coreav

Build and install the coreav command:
cargo install --locked --path crates/coreav-cli --profile dist
The dist profile is the optimized build that CoreAV ships. Cargo puts the binary in ~/.cargo/bin.
Check the installed version:
$ coreav --version coreav 0.0.1

This default build has every command except thumbnail and transcode. Those two need a decoder backend, which you add with a Cargo feature:

cargo install --locked --path crates/coreav-cli --profile dist --features ffmpeg-fallback

Build features lists each backend, what it needs on your machine, and the licence notes that come with it.

The Python module builds from crates/coreav-py with maturin. Python has the steps.

These are planned for the first release (the 0.1.0 release issue):

coreav binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows on GitHub Releases, with checksums.
The npm package coreav, which installs the native binary where one exists and runs the WebAssembly build elsewhere.

The Python and Rust library packages come in a later release.