static-ffmpeg 2.0.9

Cross platform ffmpeg to work on various systems.

static_ffmpeg

Version

FFMPEG Version: 5.0

About

Problem: You are making an ffmpeg tool on Windows/MacOS/Linux. You want to bind to a versioned ffmpeg binary and use it as an api. This tool installs a versioned ffmpeg without requiring elevated privledges.

Install

python -m pip install static-ffmpeg

Api

In your code, get the binaries:

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")

Or run it on the command line by the following:

static_ffmpeg or static_ffprobe

To get the binaries you can run static_ffmpeg_paths and get the paths to the actual binaries, like this:

$ 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

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