Question
Node-ffmpeg app crashes in a Droplet
- Posted on July 28, 2023
- DigitalOcean DropletsJavaScriptNode.js
Asked by Elijah
Hello!
I’m trying to run a node-ffmpeg app in a ubuntu droplet, but it keeps crashing without giving me any reason.
ffmpeg-api@1.0.0 start
NODE_ENV=production node index.mjs
[info] use ffmpeg.wasm v0.11.6
[info] load ffmpeg-core
[info] loading ffmpeg-core
[info] ffmpeg-api listening at port 3000
[info] ffmpeg-core loaded
Killed
The app is somewhat a modified version of the following tutorial (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-build-a-media-processing-api-in-node-js-with-express-and-ffmpeg-wasm). The only difference is that it also uses some mongodb and filestack node packages. It runs perfectly well locally and in the app-platform, however it just keeps crushing in a droplet. Older commits of the app, which follow the tutorial almost exactly, are no good either.
I can confirm node.js and npm are installed and running, and my droplet is able to run a node server. Also while trying to troubleshot it I installed ffmpeg package using sudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg libgdiplus. I don’t have rich experience in droplets, so it’s probably something small I’m missing. However at this point I don’t have any ideas what is it exactly.
Do you have any advise? Thank you!
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Hi there,
The
Killedmessage that you are getting at the end of the output, indicates that your Droplet is running out of memory.As far as I know, FFMPEG requires around 2GB of RAM, so if your Droplet has less than that it would explain why the process is crashing.
I could suggest a couple of things:
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby