If I feed url with http, such as this:
ffmpeg -i http://vjs.zencdn.net/v/oceans.mp4 videojs.mp4
It works perfectly. However, when I feed url with https, such as this:
ffmpeg -i https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bucket/check.mp4 video.mp4
This gives me an error:
https protocol not found, recompile FFmpeg with openssl, gnutls, or securetransport enabled. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bucket/check.mp4: Protocol not found
What should I do to enable https?
The answer can be found in the error message.
Recompile FFmpeg with openssl, ...
So, recompile ffmpeg with the required dependencies.
You can read more about the process here, and during the ./configure step, just add --enable-openssl.
Make sure that you have these packages installed: build-essential, openssl, libssl-dev
In the comments, you said that you're using Ubuntu, so you can easily install these packages using apt-get install.
After installation, you can execute ffmpeg -protocols to make sure that you have https listed there.
By the way, your video (on AWS), can be accessed via the http protocol.
Add --enable-openssl to the ./configure line.
The --with-openssl does not work presently.
This is my whole line:
$ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/scr1/ffmpeg_build" --extra-cflags="-
I$HOME/scr1/ffmpeg_build/include" --extra-ldflags="-
L$HOME/scr1/ffmpeg_build/lib" --bindir="$HOME/scr1/bin" --pkg-config-
flags="--static" --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-libfdk-aac --
enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-
libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-openssl
