Install ffmpeg on elastic beanstalk using ebextens

Question

I'm attempting to install an up to date version of ffmpeg on an elastic beanstalk instance on amazon servers. I've created my config file and added these container_commands:

    container_commands:
        01-ffmpeg:
            command: wget -O/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/64bit/ffmpeg.static.64bit.2014-03-05.tar.gz
            leader_only: false
        02-ffmpeg:
            command: tar -xzf /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
            leader_only: false
        03-ffmpeg:
            command: ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg
            leader_only: false

Command 01 and 03 seems to work perfectly but 02 doesn't seem to work so ffmpeg doesn't unzip. Any ideas what the issue might be?

Thanks, Helen

Answer 1

You can use a static build from ffmpeg gusari and the sources syntax to automagically download and extract the binaries from a static build tar to /usr/local/bin. Here's an extremely simple example that has worked for me:

sources:
    /usr/local/bin: https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz

Answer 2

add the following to your .ebextensions/packages.config

packages:
  yum:
    ImageMagick: []

sources:
  /usr/local/bin: http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-4.1.tar.gz

Answer 3

A kind person at Amazon helped me out and sent me this config file that works, hopefully some other people will find this useful:

packages:
  yum:
    ImageMagick: []
    ImageMagick-devel: []
commands:
  01-wget:
    command: "wget -O /tmp/ffmpeg.tar.xz https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz"
  02-mkdir:
    command: "if [ ! -d /opt/ffmpeg ] ; then mkdir -p /opt/ffmpeg; fi"
  03-tar:
    command: "tar xvf /tmp/ffmpeg.tar.xz -C /opt/ffmpeg"
  04-ln:
    command: "if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/ffmpeg ]] ; then ln -sf /opt/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-3.4-64bit-static/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg; fi"
  05-ln:
    command: "if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/ffprobe ]] ; then ln -sf /opt/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-3.4-64bit-static/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe; fi"
  06-pecl:
    command: "if [ `pecl list | grep imagick` ] ; then pecl install -f imagick; fi"

Edit: Changed the commands to install a "more official" static build linked from the FFMPEG web site. Also, the former static build from Gusari does not seem available anymore.

Answer 4

Check cloud-init logs for messages. On a Linux instance, that would be:

grep "03-ffmpeg" /var/log/eb-cfn-init.log

Also, you can log to another file to make errors easier to find:

command: ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg >> /var/log/my-init.log

Answer 5

The version is not specified in the first command "01-wget ..." however, it is specified when linking the files. Since the publication of this the release has been changed from "ffmpeg-3.3.1-64bit-static" to "ffmpeg-3.3.3-64bit-static" there are two solutions to fix this problem:

1. specify the version for wget

2. strip the containing directory on unpacking.

   03-tar: command: "tar xvf /tmp/ffmpeg.tar.xz -C /opt/ffmpeg --strip 1"

Here is the full script:

packages:
  yum:
    ImageMagick: []
    ImageMagick-devel: []
commands:
  01-wget:
    command: "wget -O /tmp/ffmpeg.tar.xz https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz"
  02-mkdir:
    command: "if [ ! -d /opt/ffmpeg ] ; then mkdir -p /opt/ffmpeg; fi"
  03-tar:
    command: "tar xvf /tmp/ffmpeg.tar.xz -C /opt/ffmpeg --strip 1"
  04-ln:
    command: "if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/ffmpeg ]] ; then ln -s /opt/ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg; fi"
  05-ln:
    command: "if [[ ! -f /usr/bin/ffprobe ]] ; then ln -s /opt/ffmpeg/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe; fi"
  06-pecl:
    command: "if [ `pecl list | grep imagick` ] ; then pecl install -f imagick; fi"

Answer 6

Untested, but shouldn't it be

tar xzf /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

without a minus?