Rails, Ffmpeg, & Heroku: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - the ffprobe binary could not be found

Question

I'm using the streamio-ffmpeg rails gem and it works fine on my local machine. But when trying to run it on Heroku, I get the below error:

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - the ffprobe binary could not be found in /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/bin:/app/bin:/app/vendor/bundle/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/streamio-ffmpeg-2.0.0/lib/streamio-ffmpeg.rb:87

What does this mean?

Is the ffprobe binary in any of those paths shown in your Heroku error output? — llogan
No, it's not. I thought the gem would take care of it. How do I add the ffprobe binary? — Jackson Cunningham

Jackson Cunningham Jackson Cunningham · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18T22:08:23

I guess the answer is pretty simple - just needed to add an Ffmpeg buildpack to my project:

https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git

https://github.com/HYPERHYPER/heroku-buildpack-ffmpeg

Rails, Ffmpeg, & Heroku: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - the ffprobe binary could not be found

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