How to Use FFmpeg with Rust (No Installation Required)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com. You need video processing in your Rust app. Maybe you're building a media pipeline, handling user uploads, or generating thumbnails in a backend service. You search "ffmpeg rust" and find a few crates. All of them require FFmpeg compiled and installed on the machine running your code. That works on your dev machine. It breaks when you deploy to a minimal Docker image, a serverless function, or a CI runner that doesn't have FFmpeg in PATH. There are thr