jrottenberg/ffmpeg resource
Docker build for FFmpeg on Ubuntu / Alpine / Centos / Scratch / nvidia / vaapi observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
67/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4387
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 9
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1644 stars · 487 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A project that builds minimalist Docker images containing FFmpeg compiled from source, with variants for Ubuntu, Alpine, CentOS, Scratch, NVIDIA GPU, and VAAPI hardware acceleration. The images are published to Docker Hub and GHCR and can be used directly or as a base for video encoding farms.
Use cases
- run ffmpeg without installing it locally
- transcode video in a container
- build a distributed video encoding farm
- gpu-accelerated video transcoding with nvidia
- hardware-accelerated encoding with vaapi
- minimal scratch image for ffmpeg jobs
- convert audio and video files in ci pipelines
When to choose
- you need ffmpeg in a containerized or ephemeral environment
- you want a prebuilt ffmpeg without compiling from source yourself
- you need gpu or vaapi hardware acceleration variants
- you are building an encoding service or farm on docker
When to avoid
- you need ffmpeg natively installed on your host
- you need a full media framework beyond ffmpeg's cli
- you cannot use docker or container runtimes
- you need a gui-based video editor
Facets
infra-config · maturity active
video-processing audio-processing container-runtime media cross-platform ffmpeg docker-image transcoding vaapi nvidia encoding-farm minimalist-image containers devops video docker linux
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jrottenberg/ffmpeg · fetched 2026-08-28 · e37b51d1f790
- homepage: https://hub.docker.com/r/jrottenberg/ffmpeg/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · d222be5aba80
- site_page: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub · fetched 2026-08-29 · caaa18892709
- site_page: https://www.docker.com/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · aeada2272712
- site_page: https://www.docker.com/company · fetched 2026-08-29 · 05ab59b2bc29
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jrottenberg/ffmpeg | main | 67 |
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