Railway•8mo ago

ffmpeg | ffprobe EACCES error on nodejs production server

In my express.js server I use ffmpeg for files, on local server everything works fine but on railway when I send file I'm getting error

'spawn /app/node_modules/@ffprobe-installer/linux-x64/ffprobe EACCES',

'spawn /app/node_modules/@ffprobe-installer/linux-x64/ffprobe EACCES',

this is what error I get I've ffmpeg paths in express server written

import ffmpeg from "fluent-ffmpeg";
import ffprobe from "@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe";
import { path } from "@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg";

ffmpeg.setFfmpegPath(path);
ffmpeg.setFfprobePath(ffprobe.path);

import ffmpeg from "fluent-ffmpeg";
import ffprobe from "@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe";
import { path } from "@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg";

ffmpeg.setFfmpegPath(path);
ffmpeg.setFfprobePath(ffprobe.path);

like that but still getting issue, on stackoverflow i found solution to give ffprobe persmission

chmod +x /app/node_modules/@ffprobe-installer/linux-x64/ffprobe

chmod +x /app/node_modules/@ffprobe-installer/linux-x64/ffprobe

is it possible to do on railway?

11 Replies

Percy•8mo ago

Project ID: 00b1176f-3284-40c5-9b89-ff64391f880c

yaviscoke•8mo ago

00b1176f-3284-40c5-9b89-ff64391f880c

Brody•8mo ago

dont use any kind of npm package that installs ffmpeg/ffprobe install ffmpeg natively with a nixpacks.toml file

[phases.setup]
  nixPkgs = ['...', 'ffmpeg']

[phases.setup]
  nixPkgs = ['...', 'ffmpeg']

(the ffmpeg nix package does come with ffprobe too)

yaviscoke•8mo ago

oh I'll check right now

Brody•8mo ago

this means removing all npm packages that install ffmpeg/ffprobe and only using the npm package that provides an api for ffmpeg

yaviscoke•8mo ago

I'll have to remove all these packages as well right?

import ffmpeg from "fluent-ffmpeg";
import ffprobe from "@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe";
import { path } from "@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg";

import ffmpeg from "fluent-ffmpeg";
import ffprobe from "@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe";
import { path } from "@ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg";

Brody•8mo ago

fluent-ffmpeg is fine, it is just an api wrapper, the installers need to go when using fluent-ffmpeg in your code, do not specify a path for the ffmpeg or ffprobe binary's, that package should be able to find them itself

yaviscoke•8mo ago

it should be like that right?

yaviscoke•8mo ago

@Brody

yaviscoke•8mo ago

i had typo issue i had to name it nixpacks.toml

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