pulsejet / memories

Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app.
https://memories.gallery
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Option to download static ffmpeg/ffprobe binaries #1154

Open joonis opened 3 weeks ago

joonis commented 3 weeks ago

Using a hosted Nextcloud instance you are not able to get video previews if ffmpeg is not installed.

There could be a download button on the memories settings page to get the required binaries from:

https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/ https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static

pulsejet commented 3 weeks ago

I'm concerned this might violate TOS of the hosted providers and they might block the app altogether. AFAIK the reason ffmpeg is not available is because it's too resource intensive (i.e. this is intentional)