Railway•14mo ago

Deploying FFMPEG/ GStreamer based python applications on Railways

Has anyone deployed applications that use FFMPEG and Gstreamer on Railway? I like to use GStreamer for live streaming to Facebook and stream start/stop controlled by posting a RESTFul request on FASTAPI. Is Railway.dev a good choice as hosting for this scenario?

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Percy•14mo ago

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Brody•14mo ago

i dont know what "GStreamer" is but you can certainly install ffmpeg onto a railway deployment

meera_dateyOP•14mo ago

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ It has python bindings

Brody•14mo ago

what is the apt package you need to install?

meera_dateyOP•14mo ago

It seems it is prebuilt for most linux distribution. https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/on-linux.html?gi-language=c for Ubuntu/Debian
apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-qt5 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio

Brody•14mo ago

try adding this nixpacks.toml file to your project

[phases.setup]
    aptPkgs = [
        '...',
        'ffmpeg',
        'libgstreamer1.0-dev',
        'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev',
        'libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-base',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-good',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly',
        'gstreamer1.0-libav',
        'gstreamer1.0-tools',
        'gstreamer1.0-x',
        'gstreamer1.0-alsa',
        'gstreamer1.0-gl',
        'gstreamer1.0-gtk3',
        'gstreamer1.0-qt5',
        'gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio'
        ]

[phases.setup]
    aptPkgs = [
        '...',
        'ffmpeg',
        'libgstreamer1.0-dev',
        'libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev',
        'libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-base',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-good',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad',
        'gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly',
        'gstreamer1.0-libav',
        'gstreamer1.0-tools',
        'gstreamer1.0-x',
        'gstreamer1.0-alsa',
        'gstreamer1.0-gl',
        'gstreamer1.0-gtk3',
        'gstreamer1.0-qt5',
        'gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio'
        ]

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