Install ffmpeg on elastic beanstalk using ebextensions config

Question

I\'m attempting to install an up to date version of ffmpeg on an elastic beanstalk instance on amazon servers. I\'ve created my config file and added these container_command

Answer 1

You can use a static build from ffmpeg gusari and the sources syntax to automagically download and extract the binaries from a static build tar to /usr/local/bin. Here's an extremely simple example that has worked for me:

sources:
    /usr/local/bin: https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz