I've seen @Medim made video on how to do it but i need to know if my n8n won't get demaged

continuing from #🎤｜chit-chat

RAILPACK_PACKAGES=ffmpeg

is probs your best bet if youre using railpack

how do you know if youre using railpack?
go to your service settings, then scroll down to the build section, if the build section is empty or the builder is nixpacks then you're not using railpack, otherwise if it says railpack is the builder then youre using railpack
if youre using nixpacks then you should stop using nixpacks
and if the build section is empty then youre deploying from an image registry, in which case installing ffmpeg will be a lot more difficult

I suppose im on the railpack, thats cool, so i need to edit only variable to install ffmpeg

nooo im using the image registry, how to move it to railpack without losing my n8n instance?

no, it seems youre deploying from an image registry

you cant move to railpack

you'll need to edit the start command to install ffmpeg

When i was installing n8n i just press few buttons and click deploy and thats all, sorry for being little slow

its okay

apt update && apt install ffmpeg && n8n start

maybe try this for the start command

Will my n8n be safe? Im affraid i can loose some of the workflows, eventhough i made a backup but it still can be very painfull

assuming the template you deployed is set up correctly, it shouldnt cause data loss

^^^ this is very dependent on whether the template you deployed is correctly built

Should i use this command in the worker section or on the other one?

or actually set your start command to this instead:

apt update && apt install -y ffmpeg && n8n start

just in case apt install has any prompts

the n8n one, not the worker

ok cool

if the worker needs it too then you might need to add the apt update && apt install -y ffmpeg && part to that one as well but lets see

maybe its not necassery

so i just do this and it should work?

yup that looks good

lets hope it works

okay i deplyed

and it flopped after 7 sec

if it doesnt work then its going to be a real pain installing ffmpeg

can you tell what error you got?

i had a feeling

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damn

🙏

okay lets try apk instead of apt

and if apk isnt there either then we'll just need to use curl

try this command

apk add --no-cache ffmpeg && n8n start

ok, deployed, now waiting

it is deploying for 60 sec right now, maybe it would work

yea hopefully

i guess n8n is alpine based

idk what does it even means tbh, but i hope it will work

ooh nice

so far so good

yup already 3+ mins and not a single error in sight, i might just chill and hope for the best

ouch

failed

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alr my assumption is that it installed ffmpeg but never moved onto n8n start for some reason

damn just let me use ffmpeg node to connect videos 🙏

so whats right now chief?

Thanks btw for helping, you are saving my life rn

no worries

I can't figure why n8n start wouldnt run after

maybe I should make an n8n template that has ffmpeg and a bunch of other stuff preinstalled

anyway, let's try one last thing
try setting the start command like so:

/bin/sh -c "apk add --no-cache ffmpeg && n8n start"

okay, now we wait

BTW i used this template :https://railway.com/deploy/n8n-with-workers

good to know

ehh…

no good news

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what the sigma

can you check the logs and tell me what you see

deploy logs specifically

HMMMM okay that makes sense

in your service variables, try adding RAILWAY_RUN_UID=0, just a shot in the dark

and if this doesnt work we can just try via curl

and if that doesnt work then im out of ideas

liker this?

yup, perfect

and now deploy yes?

yea click "Add" and then "Deploy"

love the energy

lets see

i see that the n8n got updated

now lets check ffmpg

everything is left as it was when looking at the workflows

that's good to know

if i did everything right the ffmpeg is not installed

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whar

how is that even remotely possible

we literally installed ffmpeg

maybe i should try to redeploy

nah that isnt the issue

can you check logs again?

the issue is if the install failed then the deployment shouldve failed

unless it failed but with a success exit code

or && doesnt work the way I think it does

okay actually let me just deploy the template myself

yea the logs shows that ffmpeg was installed succesfully

i see that there is something ffmpeg related, maybe im doing something wronhg

yea I just followed the steps you took and ffmpeg is definitely present in the container

damn so something is wrong i guees

maybe something is wrong here

maybe i pasted something wrong

nah its all good

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the only possibility I can think of is that n8n only checks for binaries in specific locations but that wouldn't make any sense tbh

can you try /usr/bin/ffmpeg --version instead of ffmpeg --version

maybe i should try it the other way, maybe the same way that was mentioned above

the RAILPACK_PACKAGES method ?

okay

https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1382322356814614628/1384364164453105724

this method

Still not found

oh i see what he does

OOH you know what

it's probably trying to find ffmpeg in the worker

okay nah that's easy fix

just add the RAILWAY_RUN_UID=0 variable to the worker and set the worker's start command as

/bin/sh -c "apk add --no-cache ffmpeg && n8n worker"

I'm 10 billion percent sure this will work

okay give me a sec

witch one i should choose?

neither

just add 0 on the value side

okay

succes

nice!

god bless!

that works!

NICE!!!

AND COMPLETELY NO DATA LOSS

sorry for taking so long with the solution, i just dont know the workflow of n8n

no problem, love the work

i want to return the fawor

you have Paypal or crypto account by any chance?

or maybe revolut, that would be the best option i think

Ahww thank you, I do have a paypal at [paypal.me/FragsPaypal](paypal.me/FragsPaypal) or buy me a coffee at

you dont have to though, im happy to help either way

Oh no way you r from africa! cheers brother, my dad is from ghana! I live in poland but love to see the homeland!

that's awesome! love it when I see a fellow african on discord; rare seeing other africans ngl 😔

I live in poland unfortunetely there is not much africans eaither hah

oh makes sense yea

thank you for the help, "coffe" should reached you at,

didnt use paypal becouse fee for sending 5$ is 5$ hahah

thanks a ton 🙏 i really appreciate it

wow, that is definitely not worth it 😭

thank you

the pleasure is mine

Hey! just saw this thread, gonna link this for future reference: https://github.com/kadumedim/n8n-ffmpeg

You can just swap service images, you won’t lose your saved workflows.

Fork the repo and change your service image 😉

!s

bro stole my kill

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