MediaToolkit is meant to provide an API for applications to handle their media files, specially incoming files. More than being a comprehensive library for manipulating media, this means to be able to handle correctly media files that are uploaded: such as querying thefile’s metadata for validation or simple editing operations (conversions, rotation, resizing, etc.) before being saved in the database.

It’s divided into three extensions (Audio, Image, Video) so that only the one needed is used and no unnecessary dependencies are added to the project.

Currently available operations:

Image

• Get the full image metadata (EXIF, XMP, etc.)
• Strip metadata
• Resize
• Rotate and auto rotate
• Watermark
• Convert between image formats (BMP, JPG, PNG, etc.)

Video

• Get the full video metadata, including video and audio codec information
• Extract thumbnail from video at specified seek position
• Convert between video formats (MOV, FLV, MP4, etc.)

Audio

• Get the full audio metadata, including codec and album information
• Convert from MP3 to WAV

Roadmap:

• Image - Further editing options (like overlays).
• Audio - Further editing options, further conversion options.
• Video - Further editing options, evaluate the possibility of an implementation that does no rely on FFMpeg.
• WebP/WebM support
• HEIF/HEIC support