FFmpeg/FFprobe for AWS Lambda

A Lambda layer containing a static version of FFmpeg/FFprobe utilities from the FFmpeg Linux package, compatible with Amazon Linux 2.x and Amazon Linux 1.x instances/

Usage

The easiest way to use this is to pull it directly from the AWS Serverless Application repository into a CloudFormation/SAM application or deploy it directly from the Serverless Application Repository into your account and then link it as a layer.

The ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries will be in /opt/bin/ after linking the layer to a Lambda function.

For manual deployments and custom builds, read below...

Prerequisites

• Unix Make environment
• AWS command line utilities (just for deployment)

Deploying to AWS as a layer

This package includes FFmpeg 6.0, packaged by John Van Sickle. Please consider supporting him in maintaining statically built FFmpeg packages. For more information, check out https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

The output will be in the result dir.

Create a deployment bucket, if not exist:

aws --profile <admin_profile_for_env> s3api create-bucket --bucket openreel-ffmpeg-deployment-bucket --region us-east-1

Run the following command to deploy your AWS account's compiled result as a layer.

make deploy DEPLOYMENT_BUCKET=openreel-ffmpeg-deployment-bucket

Configuring the deployment

By default, this uses ffmpeg-lambda-layer as the stack name. Provide a STACK_NAME variable when calling make deploy to use an alternative name.

example usage

An example project is in the example directory. It sets up two buckets and listens to file uploads on the first bucket to convert and generate thumbnails from uploaded video files. You can deploy it from the root Makefile using the following:

make deploy-example DEPLOYMENT_BUCKET=<YOUR BUCKET NAME>

For more information on using FFmpeg and FFprobe, check out https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html

Credits

Gojko Adzic https://gojko.net

License

• These scripts: MIT
• FFmpeg: GPLv2.1 http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html, John Van Sickle's static build GPL v3 https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

LGPL version

• Giuseppe Battista created a build that contains only LGPL components, for organisations that are concerned about GPL licensing. See it at https://github.com/giusedroid/ffmpeg-aws-lambda-layer/tree/license/lgpl