`openencoder`

Open Source Cloud Encoder for FFmpeg

A distributed and scalable video encoding pipeline to be used as an API or web interface using your own hosted or cloud infrastructure and FFmpeg encoding presets.

⚠️ Currently functional, but a work-in-progress! Check back for updates!

Features

HTTP API for submitting jobs to a redis-backed FFmpeg worker
FTP and S3 storage (AWS, Digital Ocean Spaces and Custom S3 Providers supported)
Web Dashboard UI for managing encode jobs, workers, users and settings
Machines UI/API for scaling cloud worker instances in a VPC
Database stored FFmpeg encoding presets
User accounts and roles

Preview

Development

Requirements

Docker
Go 1.11+
NodeJS 8+ (For web dashboard)
FFmpeg
Postgres
S3 API Credentials & Bucket (AWS or Digital Ocean)
Digital Ocean API Key (only required for Machines API)

Docker is optional, but highly recommended for this setup. This guide assumes you are using Docker.

Setup

Start Redis and Postgres in Docker:

docker-compose up -d redis
docker-compose up -d db

When the database container runs for the first time, it will create a persistent volume as /var/lib/postgresql/data. It will also run the scripts in scripts/ to create the database, schema, settings, presets, and an admin user.

Build & start API server:

go build -v && ./openencoder server

Start the worker:

./openencoder worker

Start Web Dashboard for development:

cd static && npm run serve

Open http://localhost:8081/dashboard in the browser and login with admin/password.

See Quick-Setup-Guide for full development setup guide.

API

See: API.md

Scaling

You can scale workers by adding more machines via the Web UI or API.

Currently only Digital Ocean is supported. More providers are planned.

See: API.md for Machines API documentation.

Documentation

See: wiki for more documentation.

Roadmap

See: Development Project for current development tasks and status.

License

MIT

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