Devilbox: How to add ffmpeg and run it from shell

[folkevil]

ISSUE TYPE

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SUMMARY

I'm trying to add ffmpeg to devilbox, and run it from inside shell, tried to add custom container () via docker-compose.override but no luck.

Any help please ?

[mrbig00]

You can ssh in the container and install it yourself:

apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg

or you can add to the rebuild script and every time it will install when the images are updated:

docker-compose exec php 'apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg'

[folkevil]

@mrbig00 thanks, I forgot to add sudo =.='

But how about to link existing ffmpeg docker image to PHP container? Any suggestion please?

[mrbig00]

that command does not creates a separate container, it installs ffmpeg in the php container

[cytopia]

@folkevil hope that solves your question.
I was looking into adding this to the PHP container by default, but it just pulls into way too much overhead and will increase the image size quite a lot.

You can however just install it during runtime and use it from there.

Manual installation will also survive Docker Compose restarts (if you do not docker-compose rm).
So next time you start up Devilbox again, it will still be available.

[KrunalRajkotiya]

hey @cytopia,
I have been facing similar kind of issue with ffmpeg.
I am using the ffmpeg for converting my mp4 files into wav format using subprocess.
I have added the ffmpeg in the _requirements.txt_ but at the time of excution of code locally on cloud shell it's showing me error like _ffmpeg not found_.
So I was trying to deploy my code in the GCP APP Engine with some files like _main.py_, _app.yaml_ and _requirements.txt_ .
But in the app deployment it's throwing the warning _ffmpeg not found on runtime_ so can you suggest how I can install ffmpeg so that my code get deploy and works perfectly fine.
I have searched about it and all the place I see Docker as best suggestion if it so then what will be there in my Docker file?