How to install ffmpeg in a docker container - docker

Question

I'm using aeneas python module which uses ffmpeg. I install ffmpeg in the dockerfile as follows:
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ffmpeg
Now when I run the program, it fails with: aeneas.ffprobewrapper.FFPROBEPathError: Unable to call the 'ffprobe' ffprobe executable : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ffprobe' and aeneas.audiofile.AudioFileProbeError: Unable to call ffprobe executable. So my question is, how can I successfully use ffmpeg in a docker container? I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.

Answer 1

Install fresh ffmpeg version from sources in docker container on Debian 9/10/Ubuntu.
You can replace 4.2.2 version to any other available on https://ffmpeg.org/releases/
# Compile and install fresh ffmpeg from sources:
# See: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get -y install \
autoconf \
automake \
build-essential \
cmake \
git-core \
libass-dev \
libfreetype6-dev \
libsdl2-dev \
libtool \
libva-dev \
libvdpau-dev \
libvorbis-dev \
libxcb1-dev \
libxcb-shm0-dev \
libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
pkg-config \
texinfo \
wget \
zlib1g-dev \
nasm \
yasm \
libx265-dev \
libnuma-dev \
libvpx-dev \
libmp3lame-dev \
libopus-dev \
libx264-dev \
libfdk-aac-dev
RUN mkdir -p ~/ffmpeg_sources ~/bin && cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && \
wget -O ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.bz2 https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.bz2 && \
tar xjvf ffmpeg-4.2.2.tar.bz2 && \
cd ffmpeg-4.2.2 && \
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
--prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
--pkg-config-flags="--static" \
--extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
--extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
--extra-libs="-lpthread -lm" \
--bindir="$HOME/bin" \
--enable-libfdk-aac \
--enable-gpl \
--enable-libass \
--enable-libfreetype \
--enable-libmp3lame \
--enable-libopus \
--enable-libvorbis \
--enable-libvpx \
--enable-libx264 \
--enable-libx265 \
--enable-nonfree && \
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make -j8 && \
make install -j8 && \
hash -r
RUN mv ~/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin && mv ~/bin/ffprobe /usr/local/bin && mv ~/bin/ffplay /usr/local/bin

Answer 2

It could be faulty library, then this should help:
apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53
If not it can be path problem:
$ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create(array(
'ffmpeg.binaries' => '/usr/bin/ffmpeg',
'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/bin/ffprobe'));
The similar issue resolved here: https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg/issues/172
in the last message on the bottom of the website.

Answer 3

You can do it if you have linux. Or anywhere you can install X (haven't tested it). Basic idea is that linux is using X11, so you can fart out X data to your host machine's X server.
Dockerfile
FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install ffmpeg -y
ENTRYPOINT ["ffplay"]
Build that with
docker build -t ffplay:latest .
play.sh
docker run \
--rm \
-u `id -u` \
-e DISPLAY \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
-v "$HOME/Desktop:/media" \
ffplay:latest \
-i /media/test.mp4