Installing ffmpeg using docker

Posted 2021-02-06 hanstar

What is Docker?

Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Using containers, everything required to make a piece of software run is packaged into isolated containers. Unlike VMs, containers do not bundle a full operating system – only libraries and settings required to make the software work are needed. This makes for efficient, lightweight, self-contained systems and guarantees that software will always run the same, regardless of where it’s deployed.

• Recommended for VPS as it consumes very less server resources.
• This method is recommended for servers that use ffmpeg based application less frequently

Installation:

1. Installing docker as a root user$ wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

   The above command downloads and executes a small installation script written by the Docker team.

2. Pull docker ffmpeg image$ docker pull jrottenberg/ffmpeg
3. Add AliasOnce the Docker Installation has been completed, add below line in ~/.bashrc file

   $ alias ffmpeg=‘docker run -v=`pwd`:/tmp/workdir jrottenberg/ffmpeg‘ 
$ source ~/.bashrc #To reload .bashrc

4. Verify installation $ ffmpeg -buildconf