How to install ffmpeg on App Platform

Not a fix for your problem, but an alternative option you might be interested in.

You can use FFMPEG WASM for many basic to medium FFMPEG use cases right in the browser.

That’s what I use.

Caveat: Works on Chrome latest (92+) best. And you gotta have some headers present for SharedArrayBuffer to work well. Just a heads up.

👋 @brunononatoquaresma

Commands like apt are not currently supported. Like you mentioned, the workaround is to deploy from a Dockerfile or build your own container image.

To run a NodeJS app without Buildpacks, one option is to use node as the base image in your Dockerfile (DockerHub link):

FROM node:16

RUN apt update && \
    apt install -y ffmpeg

EXPOSE 8080
ADD server.js .
ENTRYPOINT ["node", "server.js"]

I wrote server.js to verify I can run ffmpeg commands in my NodeJS app. I can share the source code if that’s helpful.

Hope this helps!