Friday 6 September 2019

Install FFMPEG in Azure Serverless Architecture

Install FFMPEG in Azure Serverless Architecture

Create "Function" in "Function App" in Azure (If you have not created)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-create-first-azure-function


Install FFMPEG in Azure Server

  1. Now Go to Function App, and Click on the your "Function App"
  2. Click on "Platform Features" then click on "Advance tools (Kudu)" like blow
  3. In Kudu, select CMD from the Debug console menu.
  4. Now, you can navigate to the folder by click on site -> wwwroot.

  5. Create a folder with bin,here we will put the ffmpeg library.
  6. a. Go to the https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ (for FFMPEG)
    b. Download the build as per Architecture.
    c. Unzip the downloaded content.
    d. Now copy the ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe and ffprobe.exe (from bin folder in downloaded).
    e. Copy these three files in site -> wwwroot-> bin folder.
  7. Create a folder with wav_to_mp3,here we will store the media like photo, videos etc.
  8. Here you can run the ffmpeg command such ffmpeg -version