Install the necessary prerequisites with the following two commands in terminal: $ sudo apt update In order to compile FFmpeg, we’re going to need a few packages already installed on our system. If you need access to new features that haven’t made it to the mainstream release yet, this is the method you’ll want to use. This next method of installing FFmpeg will give you the absolute latest version of it. You will need to update your plugin's README installation command to include the -unsafe-perm flag.Encoders and decoders available in FFmpeg Install latest FFmpeg from source If ffmpeg is not supported on the user's platform, or this package failed to download the ffmpeg binary, the package will return undefined, you should check for this and and try and use ffmpeg from the user's PATH instead.

fallback to system ffmpeg (replace this with your own ffmpeg spawn command)Ĭhild_process.spawn(pathToFfmpeg || 'ffmpeg', ) Import pathToFfmpeg from 'ffmpeg-for-homebridge' Var pathToFfmpeg = require('ffmpeg-for-homebridge') npm install -save ffmpeg-for-homebridge //. You can optionally include this package as a dependency in your Homebridge camera plugins, by doing this the correct ffmpeg binary will automatically be downloaded to your user's server when they install your plugin. This section is for Homebridge Plugin developers only, if you need to install ffmpeg see the instructions above. Issues strictly related to the compatibility or installation of the resulting binary may be raised here. Issues related to Homebridge, any camera plugins, or your config.json, should be raised on the corresponding project page or community support forums. enable-mmal # Raspbian Linux builds only Issues

enable-omx-rpi # Raspbian Linux builds only The ffmpeg binary is built with the following options enabled: -enable-static Install Raspbian Linux: sudo curl -Lf# | sudo tar xzf -C / -no-same-owner Debian / Ubuntu Linux: sudo curl -Lf# $(uname -m).tar.gz | sudo tar xzf -C / -no-same-owner macOS: sudo curl -Lf# | sudo tar xzfm -C / -no-same-owner Windows:ĭownload the ffmpeg.exe file from the releases page. * Not all codecs are supported on Windows 10. Hardware decoding on the Raspberry Pi using h264_omx.This project provides static ffmpeg binaries for multiple platforms and architectures for use with Homebridge.

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