static-ffmpeg 2.0.11

Cross platform ffmpeg to work on various systems.

static_ffmpeg

Version

FFMPEG Version: 5.0

Install

python -m pip install static-ffmpeg

About

This tool installs binaries for ffmpeg and ffprobe binary into the system on the first usage of this library. This libary itself is very lightweight. Binaries will be installed for win32 (Windows) / darwin (MacOS) / ubuntu (Linux)

There is both a python api and a command line api. After installing this package the command line aliases will be available:

• static_ffmpeg operates just like ffmpeg
• static_ffprobe operates just like ffprobe.
• static_ffmpeg_paths prints out the paths of the ffmpeg binaries.

> static_ffmpeg_paths
FFMPEG=c:\users\niteris\dev\static_ffmpeg\static_ffmpeg\bin\win32\ffmpeg.exe
FFPROBE=c:\users\niteris\dev\static_ffmpeg\static_ffmpeg\bin\win32\ffprobe.exe

Api

Here's how to get the binaries and execute them.

import os
from static_ffmpeg import run
ffmpeg, ffprobe = run.get_or_fetch_platform_executables_else_raise()
# ffmpeg, ffprobe will be paths to ffmpeg and ffprobe.
os.system(f"{ffmpeg} -version")
os.system(f"{ffprobe} -version")

Testing

tox

Virtual Environment (optional)

To test it in a virtual environment, use this easy helper:

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

Binary source

• https://github.com/zackees/ffmpeg_bins

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 (reduced 2/3rds of the install size vs 1.0)
• 1.0:
  • ffmpeg 4.4 released + tests