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Custom Heroku Buildpack with ffmpeg support of libx264

in my heroku PHP app I have to use ffmpeg with libx264 support but found no buildpack that provides libx264 support. So

  1. I forked Heroku Buildpack with ffmpeg support
  2. Compiled ffmpeg on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 using the steps mentioned here. (I compiled without -libvpx)
  3. Moved the items of ~/bin folder to the bin folder of ~/ffmpeg_build folder and then compressed the ffmpeg_build folder. Uploaded it here.
  4. In my forked rep I updated the downloaded_url to my ffmpeg_build.
  5. Created a .buildpacks file with following entry:

https://github.com/snehasishroy/heroku-buildpack-ffmpeg

https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php

Finally I created my heroku app with

heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi

But when I ran heroku run "ffmpeg -version" error message stated that ffmpeg:command not found

Can anybody please tell me what mistake I committed? Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

  • The problem is that https://snehasishroy.github.io/ffmpeg.tar.gz 404s :)

    However, be advised that you should be compiling this on Ubuntu 10.04 for 64 bits (or on 14.04 64 bits and use https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/19/cedar-14-public-beta)