Web hosting

[Zainmansour]

what I have to do to use this library in my website if I want to deploy it to a webhost like vercel

[derhuerst]

What do you mean exactly? Run ffmpeg on the server to convert media?

[Zainmansour]

yes how can I initialize my server to use ffmpeg?

[derhuerst]

ffmpeg-static just makes sure that you have an ffmpeg binary suitable for your platform & architecture installed. The path to this ffmpeg binary can be obtained by require('ffmpeg-static').

You can then execute ffmpeg however you please:

• via packages like fluent-ffmpeg, which give you a JavaScript-friendly API
• via Node.js' child_process (very bare-bones)
• via child_process wrappers like execs

Does that answer your question?

[Zainmansour]

I am not sure that you understood my question
focus with my please:
to install ffmpeg on my machine I downloaded it manually and add the path of /bin folder to environment variables in win 10
I create a website and I use ffmpeg it works fine on my machine so if I wanna deploy my website to a web hosting server like ( heroku or vercel ) how I can initialize the environment to use ffmpeg because I can't install it manually??
hope you understand and sorry for my poor english

[derhuerst]

to install ffmpeg on my machine I downloaded it manually

This a valid way to install ffmpeg!

This package (ffmpeg-static) is intended for automatic usage: If you want your Node.js-based project to use ffmpeg, you can use ffmpeg-static as a dependency to obtain an ffmpeg binary, instead of manually downloading one.

This only works in an environment where you can spawn child processes, not sure if this works on Vercel; But I know it works on a plain old Linux-based VM/VPS used for web hosting.