The Wolfram Language supports video objects as first-class citizens, enabling programmatic access, processing and analysis of a large number of multimedia containers and codecs. Together with complete stacks for image and audio processing, this opens up video processing from simple processing to highly sophisticated analysis.

A video object can be created by importing or referencing a video file on the disk.

The video object is a reference to a local or remote file, with interactive video rendering capabilities. The actual data of the video file remains out-of-core, but parts of it such as image frames or audio chunks can be imported into the memory.

You can use Import to obtain specific data or metadata elements from a video file, such as duration, list of frames or audio data.

The Video object has more than one purpose. It is a video file reference, a video data importer and a viewer. With respect to these functionalities, the Video object exhibits different sets of properties.

Video properties related to the video file and its content can be obtained by the following functions.

The "Summary" element of Import is also a convenient way to retrieve relevant properties of a video file.

The Video object can take options that control access and extraction of video data. These options will not change the content of the file, but instead determine the properties of extracted data for processing and display.

Most video formats supports storage of multiple audio, subtitle and even video tracks.

By default, the original dimensions of the frames, as stored in the file, are used when extracting or processing frames.

A video object can take more options that control the video and audio playback.

To extract audio data or specific frames from a video file the following functions can be used.

Generate a video summary by extracting frames.

It is a common operation to trim a part of a video, delete portions of a video, add an audio track to a video and more. These video editing operations can be obtained by the following functions.

Video processing or filtering is a video-in, video-out operation. Functions may operate on individual frames or a sequence of video frames to create new frames for the output video. Video analysis is the process of understanding the content of video by computing statistics or extracting features from single frame or a sequence of video frames.

VideoFrameMap applies image functions to individual frames or a sequence of video frames, resulting in a new video object.

VideoMapTimeSeries can be used for analyzing and detecting video content by applying functions to video frames that return an arbitrary result, returned as a TimeSeries.

The VideoStream expression can be used to programmatically manipulate the video playback.