By Visbits
I am trying to build a PHP worker that has the ffmpeg binary installed to transcode a video. I have included the ffmpeg composer extension so I can access the library but don’t understand how I can adjust what is installed on my worker container.
In another community post it seemed like your could build your own dockerbuild file and that would get you most of what was needed, but I didn’t really follow how that worked on the app platform.
HALP.
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Heya,
In DigitalOcean App Platform, you can customize your worker container by creating your own Dockerfile. From there, you can specify to install the ffmpeg binary for video transcoding purposes. When you deploy your application with the App Platform, it will read this Dockerfile to build your worker with the necessary environment.
Below is a simple example of how a Dockerfile installing ffmpeg might look:
FROM php:7.4-fpm
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
ffmpeg \
&& apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
You should replace “php:7.4-fpm” with the base image appropriate for your environment. Make sure you also include any necessary commands for installing PHP and the ffmpeg composer extension.
Hope that this helps!
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