FFMPEG for Docker on Centos6

This repo has a Dockerfile to create a Docker image wth FFMPEG. It compiles FFMPEG from sources following instructions from the Centos Compilation Guide.

You can install the latest build of this image by running docker pull jrottenberg/ffmpeg.

This image can likely be used as a base for a networked encoding farm, based on centos.

Test

$ docker run jrottenberg/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 2.4.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar  2 2015 10:45:40 with gcc 4.4.7 (GCC) 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib --bindir=/usr/local/bin --extra-libs=-ldl --enable-version3 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-nonfree --enable-avresample --enable-libfdk_aac --disable-debug --enable-small
  libavutil      54.  7.100 / 54.  7.100
  libavcodec     56.  1.100 / 56.  1.100
  libavformat    56.  4.101 / 56.  4.101
  libavdevice    56.  0.100 / 56.  0.100
  libavfilter     5.  1.100 /  5.  1.100
  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
  libswscale      3.  0.100 /  3.  0.100
  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
  libpostproc    53.  0.100 / 53.  0.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
[...]

Capture output from the container to the host running the command

 docker run jrottenberg/ffmpeg \
            -i http://url/to/media.mp4 \
            -stats \
            $ffmpeg_options    -   > out.mp4

Example

 docker run jrottenberg/ffmpeg -stats  \
        -i http://archive.org/download/thethreeagesbusterkeaton/Buster.Keaton.The.Three.Ages.ogv \
        -loop 0  \
        -final_delay 500 -c:v gif -f gif -ss 00:49:42 -t 5 - > trow_ball.gif

See what's inside the beast

$ docker run -ti --entrypoint='bash'  jrottenberg/ffmpeg
bash-4.1#