FreeBSD support

[Thefrank]

trying to install anything that requires ffmpeg-static fails under FreeBSD as an example:

install bropat/ioBroker.eufy-security#6027c21fc25365e812ec5215336aede2783fbb0e
NPM version: 6.14.8
npm install bropat/ioBroker.eufy-security#6027c21fc25365e812ec5215336aede2783fbb0e --loglevel error --prefix "/opt/iobroker" (System call)
ffmpeg-static install failed: No binary found for architecture
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLEnpm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! ffmpeg-static@4.2.7 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the ffmpeg-static@4.2.7 install script.npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

what would it take to get that added? FreeBSD already offers it via pkg (pkg install ffmpeg) and ports (https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/ffmpeg/)

[derhuerst]

Thanks for reporting @Thefrank!

Currently, ffmpeg-static does not support FreeBSD. This can be changed by

• augmenting the platform/arch detection logic to include freebsd (this is the value that Node's os.platform() returns).
• augmenting the binary download script to download pre-built FreeBSD binaries.
• augmenting the binary upload script upload the FreeBSD binaries.

Contributions welcome!

[Thefrank]

@derhuerst thanks for the reply!

node does seem to correctly detect the platform its on for freebsd:

Welcome to Node.js v15.5.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> os.platform()
'freebsd'
> os.arch()
'x64'

I was able to build a statically linked ffmpeg for FreeBSD x64 (https://github.com/Thefrank/ffmpeg-static-freebsd) but was unsure what codecs needed to be built into it so I guessed based on description, ports already in FreeBSD, and description.

Any guidance on this would be great!

[derhuerst]

node does seem to correctly detect the platform its on for freebsd [...].

Yes, it is what ffmpeg-static uses. Check the links in my post above.

I was able to build a statically linked ffmpeg for FreeBSD x64 (https://github.com/Thefrank/ffmpeg-static-freebsd) but was unsure what codecs needed to be built into it so I guessed based on description, ports already in FreeBSD, and description.

Any guidance on this would be great!

Cool! Did you upload the binaries somewhere?

Regarding codecs and build flags: I don't really know, sorry. I just offered the owner of this project to maintain it and I use ffmpeg regularly, but I don't know anything about building it.

[Thefrank]

Cool! Did you upload the binaries somewhere?

I knew I forgot to post something! : https://github.com/Thefrank/ffmpeg-static-freebsd/releases/tag/v4.3.2
The actual binary is: https://github.com/Thefrank/ffmpeg-static-freebsd/releases/download/v4.3.2/ffmpeg
Compressing it (tar/gz/xz/bz2/whatever) would save bandwidth on the downloader but that would be it...it is just a single binary after all hah!

[derhuerst]

The actual binary is: https://github.com/Thefrank/ffmpeg-static-freebsd/releases/download/v4.3.2/ffmpeg

I will adapt the binary download script to download it.

Compressing it (tar/gz/xz/bz2/whatever) would save bandwidth on the downloader but that would be it...it is just a single binary after all hah!

Yeah, but that's the point: According to the GitHub API, ffmpeg-static has seen ~900k binary downloads (since I've switched to GitHub as binary host), so ~45tb of traffic. Thus, I expect gzipping to save several terabytes of traffic.

The binary publishing script does it anyway though, so you don't need to do that.

[derhuerst]

Published as ffmpeg-static@4.3.0. 🎉

I forgot to mention FreeBSD support in the readme, will do that in the next release.

[Thefrank]

Thanks for the addition!

[derhuerst]

Do you want to be mentioned as a contributor? If yes, with an email or website, or just as Thefrank?

[Thefrank]

Sure! Thefrank is plenty and if possible either my Github profile (https://github.com/Thefrank) or link to the repo for the binary (https://github.com/Thefrank/ffmpeg-static-freebsd). Hopefully that should be enough to draw people with binary specific issues to the binary repo and those with package issues to this repo hah

thanks again!