bbxnet/transcode-ffmpeg repository overview

⁠Transcode FFmpeg

This repository contains Dockerfiles and scripts for transcode FFmpeg based on nvidia/cuda⁠ container image.

This container image includes FFmpeg version 4.0 built with nvidia⁠ hardware acceleration support.

The container image is available on Docker Hub⁠ as bbxnet/transcode-ffmpeg.

⁠Installation

This image is available on DockerHub. To download it run:

$ docker pull bbxnet/transcode-ffmpeg

To build latest container image from source run:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/bbxnet/transcode
$ cd transcode-ffmpeg
$ git submodule update --init
$ make build

⁠FFmpeg parameters

This image loads parameters for FFmpeg from configuration files located in /etc/transcode.

Configuration files are processed in following order:

transcode.conf

Should contain global parameters.

input.conf / input.d/*.conf

Should contain FFmpeg input(s) and it's parameters.

output.conf / output.d/*.conf

Should contain FFmpeg output(s) and it's parameters.

⁠Environment variables

This images recognizes the following environment variables that can be set during initialization by passing -e VAR=VALUE to the Docker run command.

TRANSCODE_GPU (default: any)

Set NVENC capable GPU to use, if set to any pick the first device available.

⁠Volumes

The following mount points can be set by passing -v /host/path:/container/path to the Docker run command.

/etc/transcode

FFmpeg transcode configuration directory.

/srv/stream

FFmpeg transcode data directory.

⁠Troubleshooting

The FFmpeg daemon in the container logs to the standard output by default, so the logs are available in container log. The log can be examined by running:

$ docker logs <container>

⁠See also

Dockerfile and other sources for this container image are available on https://github.com/bbxnet/transcode⁠.