SABNZBD container with ffmpeg

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I just pulled the linuxserver/sabnzbd container and deployed it. It works great.
I use the service in conjunction with sickchill and nzbToMedia.

nzbToMedia is run as a postprocessing script for the tv category. The software/python modules though require ffmpeg/ffprobe.

Now, I can go and install ffmpeg (apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg) into the container, create a new image and use that - however I would think that I am not alone in this endeavour?

Can the linuxserver/sabnzbd image be augmented to have ffmpeg?

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We’ll give it some thought. But until then, the easiest way for you to add ffmpeg to the images is by mapping a local file called 90config into the /etc/cont-init.d/ folder, and put the following into that file:

#!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash

apt-get update
apt-get install ffmpeg

That way, you still use the original image and can update it as needed, but ffmpeg will always be installed during container start.

Here’s a sample docker run addition for that -v /home/youruser/90-config:/etc/cont-init.d/90-config

3

I was looking for some documentation on this very idea! Now I just need to get to work – whenever I try to do the “install” it immediately aborts and continues the rest of the startup.

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take a look at https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/09/14/customizing-our-containers/ for more info

5

Impressive! Any chance you have an example docker-compose?

Love the work you guys are doing.

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there is an example of how to use docker-mods in the link i gave you.

edit: sorry i see there’s not a compose, but you just put anything with -e under the environment section, which is where the docker-mods bit is.

you can see an example sab compose by viewing sab on fleet.linuxserver.io

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Hi,

I’m too deploying sabnzbd with sickchill but am struggling to get nzbToMedia to work (pls see this post: Linuxserver/sabnzbd cannot run script nzbToMedia.py) . Did you work it out / can you run nzbtomedia postscript?

thanks, Markus