A Lambda layer containing a static version of FFmpeg/FFprobe utilities from the FFmpeg Linux package, compatible with Amazon Linux 2023 runtimes.
Absolutely the easiest way of using this is to pull it directly from the AWS Serverless Application repository into a CloudFormation/SAM application, or deploy directly from the Serverless Application Repository into your account, and then link as a layer.
The ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries will be in /opt/bin/ after linking the layer to a Lambda function.
For more information, check out the ffmpeg-lambda-layer application in the Serverless App Repository.
For manual deployments and custom builds, read below...
- Unix Make environment
- AWS command line utilities (just for deployment)
This package will create a static build of FFmpeg 7.1 from source with a number of free (GPL-compatible) codecs.
The output will be in the result dir.
Run the following command to deploy the compiled result as a layer in your AWS account.
make deploy DEPLOYMENT_BUCKET=<YOUR BUCKET NAME>
By default, this uses ffmpeg-lambda-layer as the stack name. Provide a STACK_NAME variable when calling make deploy to use an alternative name.
For more information on using FFmpeg and FFprobe, check out https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html
Gojko Adzic https://gojko.net
- These scripts: MIT
- FFmpeg: GPLv2.1 http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html, John Van Sickle's static build GPL v3 https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
- Giuseppe Battista created a build that contains only LGPL components, for organisations that are concerned about GPL licensing. See it at https://github.com/giusedroid/ffmpeg-aws-lambda-layer/tree/license/lgpl