Eli/static ffmpeg

[mjh1]

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[mjh1]

@hjpotter92 finally found the problem at least, I think you were right and there's a missing option, this static build can't read from remote URLs:

ffmpeg -i https://storage.googleapis.com/livepeer-test-vod/test-max/BigBuckBunny-30sec.mp4?
ffmpeg version 6.0-static https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 8 (Debian 8.3.0-6)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-debug --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --cc=gcc --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-gmp --enable-libgme --enable-gray --enable-libaom --enable-libfribidi --enable-libass --enable-libvmaf --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librubberband --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libsrt --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libdav1d --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg
  libavutil      58.  2.100 / 58.  2.100
  libavcodec     60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavformat    60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavdevice    60.  1.100 / 60.  1.100
  libavfilter     9.  3.100 /  9.  3.100
  libswscale      7.  1.100 /  7.  1.100
  libswresample   4. 10.100 /  4. 10.100
  libpostproc    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
[tcp @ 0x58f7240] Failed to resolve hostname storage.googleapis.com: System error

That works fine with the apt version of ffmpeg

[mjh1]

Ah ha: https://superuser.com/questions/1141609/android-tcp-error-failed-to-resolve-host-name-from-static-library

More of the same info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60528501/ffmpeg-segmentation-fault-with-network-stream-source

The "run nscd service" solution sounds a bit hacky but not really my area of expertise..
WDYT @iameli @hjpotter92 do we resort to compiling ourselves or install from another apt repo? https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/03/ffmpeg-6-0-released-how-to-install-in-ubuntu-22-04-20-04/

[hjpotter92]

The "run nscd service" solution sounds a bit hacky but not really my area of expertise.. WDYT @iameli @hjpotter92 do we resort to compiling ourselves or install from another apt repo? ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/03/ffmpeg-6-0-released-how-to-install-in-ubuntu-22-04-20-04

I'll push a commit to test if the ppa from blog post ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ffmpeg6 is working. would have been ok with installing nscd as well, although that requires a systemd service to be setup and running as well. since we already have the set of flags we need for compiling ffmpeg6, we could try that too if the ppa installation doesn't work out for us.