static-ffmpeg 2.0.0

Cross platform ffmpeg to work on various systems.

static_ffmpeg

Version

FFMPEG Version: 5.0

About

Problem: You develop on Windows/MacOS/Linux. You want an ffmpeg that works on all the platforms but now you have to go and special case your program installation to handle each platforms ability to get the ffmpeg download. For example:

• Win32: choco install ffmpeg
• MacOS: brew install ffmpeg
• Linux: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

If you want to be able to quitely (re)install a python package silently and automatically using ffmpeg, well you are out of luck... until now.

Pre-installation (optional)

To easily setup a virtual environment, please see this installation script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zackees/static_ffmpeg/main/setupvirtualenv.py

Installation

To use simply do pip install static-ffmpeg and then after this is done you can try running static_ffmpeg -version and/or static_ffprobe -version to test out that the version has been installed.

Once this package is installed, the static_ffmpeg and static_ffprobe command will be available. This command simply passes all arguments to a real ffmpeg/ffprobe. Call static_ffmpeg like you would call ffmpeg in your project and it should just work, or bypass the stub and use the ffmpeg/ffprobe directly by getting the path via run.get_platform_executables_or_raise()

Warning - Big

• All three binaries for Win32/darwin/linux ffmpeg are included. Though if you need ffmpeg then you probably have a large disk anyway.

Updating binaries

• Zip up folders darwin/linux/win32 into the darwin/linux/win32.zip archives prior to release. They must be < 100MB or else PYIP won't accept it. So compression matters.
  • To make archive:
    • (Win32) select darwin/linux/win32 and right click 7z -> "add to archive"
      • Assumes you've installed 7z archiver for windows
    • format: 7z
    • Compression Level: Ultra
    • Compression Method: LZMA2
    • Dictionary Size: 1024
    • Word Size 64
    • Solid Block Size 512MB

Binary source

• MacOS (Intel): https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-105504-g04cc7a5548.zip
• Windows: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-release-full-shared.7z
• Linux: https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-5.0.tar.xz

Testing

• Clone this project git clone https://github.com/zackees/static_ffmpeg
• Then setup the virtual env using the script python virtualenvsetup.py
• Then activate . venv/bin/activate
• Then run tox tox

Testing work arounds

• You may get an error like 'Interpretor not found'
  • The solution it install the python interpretor of this type, like so
    • https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3810/
• Ubuntu: `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'virtualenv.seed.via_app_data'
  • Uninstall the pip on your system and reinstall:
    • pip3 uninstall virtualenv
    • pip3 install virtualenv

Release History

• 2.0:
  • ffmpeg upgraded to 5.0
  • added ffprobe (static_ffprobe or get run.get_platform_executables_or_raise() to get the binary location)
  • Now downloads platform specific binary to reduce install size and memory footprint to 1/3
• 1.0:
  • ffmpeg 4.4 released + tests