Building FFMPEG in Docker

Introduction

The docker containers provide a standard environment to run the test suites in the git repo. This is also a great way to build ffmpeg from scratch.

Its based on https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker/blob/master/ci-vfxall/Dockerfile - providing the the ASWF environment including OCIO and OIIO. Its using the ffmpeg build environment based on https://github.com/jrottenberg/ffmpeg.git, but with vmaf compiled in, and also OIIO rebuilt to include OpenJPH. ACES 1.2 is also checked out, with the python libraries to run the tests.

Building container

The runme.sh script will mount the git repo as “/test” and create a shell to run the tests in.

Building for rocky-ffmpeg-8.1

Built on top of Rocky Linux 9 (identical to RHEL 9). This builds all the components directly not relying on any ASWF containers, including correctly building OCIO and OIIO.

cd rocky-ffmpeg-8.1
docker build -t rocky-ffmpeg-8.1 .
./runme.sh

There are also earlier builds with ffmpeg 7.1, 7.0, 6.1 and 6.0

Building for ffmpeg-8.1

Built on top of aswf/ci-vfxall:2026-clang20.3 which is based on rocky-9 This tries to rely on existing VFX containers, so OCIO is not rebuilt.

cd ffmpeg-8.1
docker build -t ffmpeg-8.1 .
./runme.sh