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title: Mediabunny
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[Mediabunny](https://mediabunny.dev) is an awesome multimedia library by [Vanilagy](https://github.com/Vanilagy).  
It allows for general purpose media tasks like extracting metadata and format conversions such as trimming and cropping in the browser.

## Remotion and Mediabunny

Mediabunny is internally used in packages such as [`@remotion/media`](/docs/media) and [`@remotion/media-utils`](/docs/media-utils) as well as in [Remotion Studio](/docs/studio) and [remotion.dev/convert](https://www.remotion.dev/convert).

Mediabunny is a completely independent project.  
Remotion is a Gold Sponsor of Mediabunny ($1000/month).

## Installation

Install Mediabunny with the version that matches your Remotion installation:

```bash
npm i --save-exact mediabunny
```

To upgrade Remotion and Mediabunny together, run [`npx remotion upgrade`](/docs/cli/upgrade):

```bash
npx remotion upgrade
```

See [Mediabunny version used by Remotion](/docs/mediabunny/version) for more details.

## `@remotion/media-parser`

Before Mediabunny, Remotion had its own multimedia libraries [`@remotion/media-parser`](/docs/media-parser) and [`@remotion/webcodecs`](/docs/webcodecs).

Those packages are now deprecated. Use [Mediabunny](https://mediabunny.dev) instead.

## Reporting bugs

If you can pin down an issue to the Mediabunny library directly, then report an issue under [Mediabunny's repo](https://github.com/Vanilagy/mediabunny/issues).  
If an issue also concerns Remotion usage described in our docs, you can file it within the [Remotion repo](https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion/issues).

## License

Remotion continues to use the [Remotion License](/docs/license).  
If you are using Remotion and are not eligible for the Free License, you continue to require a Company License.

[Mediabunny](https://mediabunny.dev) has a more permissive MPL 2.0 license.  
If you are only using Mediabunny and not Remotion, you don't need a Company License.

## See also

- [`<Video>` and `<Audio>` tags](/docs/mediabunny/new-video)
- [Getting metadata](/docs/mediabunny/metadata)
- [Extracting frames](/docs/mediabunny/extract-frames)
- [Supported formats](/docs/mediabunny/formats)
- [Mediabunny version](/docs/mediabunny/version)
- [Mediabunny documentation](https://mediabunny.dev)