Ok, this maybe we’ll trodden ground, but for a while now, I’ve always tried to run the things I need on my NAS, mainly via a container (e.g docker) But.... a recent flow/dashboard design challenge made me question my Docker approach for hosting NR, as i need to access ffmpeg, which is installed on …

Just found this, could it be an option ? ... [Peza] ffmpeg install within existing Node.js docker image node.js, docker, ffmpeg, docker-compose asked by Peza on 06:06AM - 05 Jun 18 UTC This guidance sadly looks like it's at an …

If you wish to persist with the Docker path then you should really have a seperate docker container for ffmpeg and then communicate between the two containers as required. I am sure there would be plenty of containers out there purpose built with ffmpeg in there - what exactly are you trying to ach…

This one has 10m pulls so is probably going to cover almost every scenario you can imagne https://hub.docker.com/r/jrottenberg/ffmpeg/ Craig

[image] craigcurtin: I am sure there would be plenty of containers out there purpose built with ffmpeg in there - what exactly are you trying to achieve ? Sorry if that's not been clear above, I'm ultimately looking to make use of ffmpeg with the exec node of my NR docker instance - However -…

@craigcurtin I already have it installed on the host, and have looked at it as a seperate docker too, - see comment moments earlier for desirable/ideal solution - if that helps..

Yep - but what is the overall solution ? i,e, what are you trying to do with FFMPEG - re-encode a video stream convert a static file and post somewhere etc etc Craig

[image] craigcurtin: Yep - but what is the overall solution ? i,e, what are you trying to do with FFMPEG - re-encode a video stream convert a static file and post somewhere etc etc This came about as part of this thread ( VLC video on dashboard - #11 by BartButenaers ), if you are interested in…

OK got it now - did not tie the two together. My advice would be to take a step back, bult NR in a virtual machine so you can install all the ffmpeg stuff you need, get your dashboard working and understand what all the dependencies etc are. then work out if it is worth doing as a docker (or number…

My 2 cents; deploy VM; headless debian or ubuntu server and call it a day, gives all the flexibility you need, also future proof.

[image] bakman2: headless debian I agree - and I had tried to do that the other day, but everything I tried to do/run from the command line could not be found. The repositories list did not look correct, I could not get any SSH access (only via the VM console) and I could not install anything…

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This came about as part of this thread (VLC video on dashboard - #11 by BartButenaers), if you are interested in the history - but it's grown sightly since, looking more at how to access more when using NR Docker

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