FFMPEG is a cli tool/package, which is not useful to deploy on its own without an interface. Could you please explain your usecase and what you're aiming to accomplish?

I want to deploy FFMPEG with a API script so I can use it via API

This isn't related to Railway and or it's platform, you want FFMPEG help and how to use it as an API

There's some docker images that do that, they transform FFMPEG into an API

No. I want to know how to install it on Railway.

Is 100% related to Railway.

Do you know docker?

A little. I deployed something but now I am stuck.

For example I don't know where/how to deploy the API python script.

So you got a python script with FFMPEG?

Yup.

what is it using? fastAPI? I don't know python that much

I believe so. I just noticed I didn't deploy the docker package. Maybe it errored. I need to check it again. But still not sure how to sort it.

Did u manage to run it locally? Again, I'm 100% sure this is better asked in the FFMPEG discord server

I run ffmpeg on my local machine all the time

If you already have an api that you’re able to run locally and works, this is a Railway question. The first step is to deploy your script through the Github repo you’ve created. Do that and we’ll troubleshoot from there

If your code does not work locally, you will need to fix it before attempting to host your project on Railway

If you are encountering errors on Railway, share them here

I deployed this and it's crashed without even doing anything

What are the logs?

the deploy log doesn't show any specific errro

I restarted it, and it crashed again immediately

it was deployed fine, then crashed a few seconds later

cntrl + k -> download deploy logs

attach it here

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from this docker package: linuxserver/ffmpeg

when you google ffmpeg + railway it seems I'm not the only person who's having issues.

after inspecting the image, I don't think you can use it on railway

they want to install ffmpeg into their code deployment, dont they?

tbh I still don't fully get what's hes trying to do

but this linuxserver/ffmpeg doesn't work on railway, you send run commands to it's docker container and he generates a file in a specific dir

I want to host ffmpeg add an API wrapper and pass video to be adapted and then passed back

have you already coded the api wrapper?

I have one

have you tried deploying it to railway

(your api wrapper, not the docker image)

nope

please go ahead and do that, deploy your code to railway

I am not sure how to do that. I haven't hooked up GitHub. do I need to do it via that?

That’s the best way

yep the best way is to have your code in github

why will it help to push the API code to railway if ffmpeg isn't working?

Because we can ensure the API itself is working and resolve any dependency issues from there

installing ffmpeg through nixpacks is easy

so can you explain how I will deploy ffmpeg via nixpicks Adam please. Is there a site with all their packages?

Let’s start with the basics first, get your api on Github and deploy. If there are any issues, we’ll solve them from there

ok lads

thank you for the input and feedback

If you want to read ahead while doing so, here are the nixpacks configuration file docs and nix package repository

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