CODEWITHSUNDEEP
amazon-s3ffmpeg
servalex
servalex

Reputation: 195

Use FFMPEG without downloading full file

I'm generating thumbnails for a videos that are available from s3 and need to minimize traffic. Frame is going to be from the first couple seconds of the video so the question: is there a way to get frame without passing the full file through network?

At the moment I'm passing video url to ffmpeg but seems like it downloads the whole file, not only first couple seconds.

ffmpeg -ss 0 -noaccurate_seek -i {srcPresignedUrl} -vframes 1 -q:v 2 {outputFileName}

I tried downloading first 10mb of the file and passing it, this works for some mp4 files, but fails on mov:

ffmpeg.exe -ss 0 -i source.mov -vframes 1 -q:v 2 thumb.jpg
ffmpeg version 4.3.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 10.2.1 (GCC) 20200726
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libsrt --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libgsm --enable-librav1e --disable-w32threads --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt --enable-amf
  libavutil      56. 51.100 / 56. 51.100
  libavcodec     58. 91.100 / 58. 91.100
  libavformat    58. 45.100 / 58. 45.100
  libavdevice    58. 10.100 / 58. 10.100
  libavfilter     7. 85.100 /  7. 85.100
  libswscale      5.  7.100 /  5.  7.100
  libswresample   3.  7.100 /  3.  7.100
  libpostproc    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0000017582ffff40] moov atom not found
source.mov: Invalid data found when processing input

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1298

Answers (1)

Alex Cohn
Alex Cohn

Reputation: 57163

That's true. Some mp4 files are streaming-ready, but often they are not. The trick is that the moov atom (in simple English, the table of contents of the video file) is normally prepared during the file encoding and attached to the end. There are different ways to move this information to the head of the stream (see Post processing in ffmpeg to move 'moov atom' in MP4 files (qt-faststart)), but this requires rebuilding the video.

Upvotes: 1

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