Can FFMPEG be packaged into a standalone application?

[connors89]

I've been trying to make this for a while now, I have a Python script that downloads and converts audio files using yt-dlp and ffmpeg (.MP3 and .WAV) I made a GUI so I don't have to open VS code every time I want to use this script. I tried packaging it into an application for macOS with Pyinstaller but my code seems to get stuck on converting from .webm to .MP3...

I've seen some posts on reddit saying that ffmpeg is only command-line but I've seen others saying they have gotten working GUI's with FFMPEG. is this possible? And what is a potential issue? Anything is greatly appreciated!

[OpenBagTwo]

This is really more of a question for the ffmpeg project, but I can answer it here.

In short, yes: FFmpeg is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or later and incorporates components licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

I maintain a project that uses this library, and my process for creating release builds involves downloading FFmpeg and re-packaging it into the final executables. Feel free to adapt it to suit your needs.