FFmpeg

Stewart85

Hi is there any way to install FFMPEG into a website container or onto the application server that the website can access it

necrom

AFAIK anything you install to the underlying server with world execute permissions is already available to the users SSH and PHP/appcd.

Stewart85

necrom

the problem I come across when trying to install FFmpeg using the user account SSH is that FFmpeg needs to be installed with sudo command

when you use sudo in the ssh under a user account it asks for a password non of the password I have or setup up under Enhance will work

necrom

FFmpeg is around 750MB last I checked, it'd be better installed on the whole app server level (otherwise that'll balloon your storage and your backups) and will then be available to the user level without sudo by default (I haven't tested this with FFmpeg as I don't want to support it until we have resource controls/limits, but that's certainly the case with ImageMagick).

ss88us

So I used my test server and did this as root at the server level

apt install ffmpeg

Rebooted; but ffmpeg is still not found when SU'ed as a container user.

whereis ffmpeg
ffmpeg:

Any ideas?

Ned

Not an answer to your question but an alternative.

Have you tried static builds?

https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

Had to use this when latest wasn't available on CentOS - Still use it for ease of access

ss88us

Ned Thanks Ned, this works for me. I didn't update the shell path, but my script is executing the binary directly within it's container. Much appreciated!