video_compressor_plus

Compress videos, trim them, strip audio, and extract thumbnails — using the platform's own encoders (AVAssetExportSession on iOS/macOS, MediaCodec on Android). No FFmpeg binaries, so nothing is added to your app's download size.

Why this package exists

This is a maintained continuation of video_compress by Jonny Borges, which has had no release since February 2025 — 208 open issues, and four unmerged pull requests adding Swift Package Manager support.

That last point is what forced the fork. Flutter warns:

The following plugins do not support Swift Package Manager for ios: video_compress — This will become an error in a future version of Flutter.

In a project that has otherwise migrated to SPM, video_compress is often the only plugin left on CocoaPods, keeping a whole build system alive for one dependency. This package fixes that and keeps everything else identical.

All credit for the original work belongs to Jonny Borges and the upstream contributors. Released under the same MIT license.

Migrating from video_compress

Change the import. That is the whole migration:

- import 'package:video_compress/video_compress.dart';
+ import 'package:video_compressor_plus/video_compressor_plus.dart';

VideoCompress, VideoQuality, MediaInfo and every method keep their names, signatures, and behaviour. See the CHANGELOG for the one small type-level exception.

Usage

import 'package:video_compressor_plus/video_compressor_plus.dart';

// Report progress — subscribe before you start.
final subscription = VideoCompress.compressProgress$.subscribe(
  (progress) => print('$progress%'),
);

final info = await VideoCompress.compressVideo(
  file.path,
  quality: VideoQuality.MediumQuality,
  deleteOrigin: false,
  includeAudio: true,
);

subscription.unsubscribe();

Trim a clip and drop its audio:

final info = await VideoCompress.compressVideo(
  file.path,
  startTime: 5,        // seconds
  duration: 15,        // seconds
  includeAudio: false,
);

Extract a thumbnail:

final bytes = await VideoCompress.getByteThumbnail(file.path, quality: 50);
final file  = await VideoCompress.getFileThumbnail(path, quality: 50);

Cancel a running compression:

await VideoCompress.cancelCompression();

See example/ for a complete app.

Platform support

Platform	Supported	Encoder
Android	✅ API 21+	MediaCodec via Transcoder
iOS	✅ 12.0+	AVAssetExportSession
macOS	✅	AVAssetExportSession

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Upstream documentation

-------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------- | | getByteThumbnail | String pathvideo path, int quality(1-100)thumbnail quality, int positionGet a thumbnail from video position | get thumbnail from video path | Future<Uint8List> | | getFileThumbnail | String pathvideo path, int quality(1-100)thumbnail quality, int positionGet a thumbnail from video position | get thumbnail file from video path | Future<File> | | getMediaInfo | String pathvideo path | get media information from video path | Future<MediaInfo> | | compressVideo | String pathvideo path, VideoQuality qualitycompressed video quality, bool deleteOrigindelete the origin video, int startTimecompression video start time, int durationcompression video duration from start time, bool includeAudiois include audio in compressed video, int frameRatecompressed video frame rate | compression video at origin video path | Future<MediaInfo> | | cancelCompression | none | cancel compressing | Future<void> | | deleteAllCache | none | Delete all files generated by 'video_compress' will delete all files located at 'video_compress' | Future<bool> |

Subscriptions

Subscriptions	Description	Stream
compressProgress$	Subscribe the compression progress steam	double progress

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome!

acknowledgment

Inspired by the flutter_ffmpeg library. https://github.com/rurico/flutter_video_compress