Hey @B_Alexander_Ingram I don’t think you can use FFmpeg directly on n8n cloud but I can recommend some effective workarounds you can use for video stitching.
I don’t believe it is possible to use ffmpeg directly from cloud based instance on n8n (unlike self-hosted). You can, however, use online services or wrap ffmpeg in a rest api service inside a docker container and run it as a remote service from http request node.
Hello Zelite, I was not sure, but it would be great if you have some free or affordable options. I am. loosing patience with some of the apps. So, what you got?
@B_Alexander_Ingram You can use services like Shotstack or AWS MediaConvert that offer FFmpeg as an API. These services are really easy to integrate with n8n and can handle video stitching for you.
Yeah, setting up ffmpeg in a docker container entails having a server where the container is running (hardware or “cloud”).
There is an image (datarhei/restreamer:latest) that exposes a lot of the ffmpeg functionality through api, so you wouldn’t have to create the image yourself. There is also another self-hosted solution called OpenShot Cloud API, which can stitch too, but quite honestly, unless you can’t find an online service which does what you want, I wouldn’t go this route, because if you need a server to run docker, you could be just running your self-hosted n8n as well, and that would solve your problem of not having access to ffmpeg to begin with.
Thanks, but I don’t think this is something I want to venture into at the current time. Maybe down the road. So for now I’m looking for a simpler solution. Thanks for the assist though.