ffmpeg-minimal

Statically-linked ffmpeg binary tuned for Raspberry Pi 5 (VideoCore VII) with H.264/HEVC/VP8/VP9/AV1 support.

What's included

• Demuxers: RTSP, RTP, SDP, H.264, HEVC, MOV, Matroska/WebM, IVF, Ogg
• Muxers: MP4, segment, Matroska, WebM, image2, MJPEG, IVF, RTP
• Decoders: H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, VP8, VP9, AV1 (native + libdav1d), libvpx VP8/VP9, h264_v4l2m2m, hevc_v4l2m2m
• Encoders: libx264, libx265, libvpx (VP8/VP9), libsvtav1, MJPEG, PNG, h264_v4l2m2m
• Protocols: file, pipe, RTP, RTSP, TCP, UDP
• Filters: null, scale, format, copy, fps
• BSFs: h264_mp4toannexb, hevc_mp4toannexb, vp9_superframe, vp9_metadata, av1_metadata, extract_extradata, dump_extra

Pi 5 codec strategy

Codec	Decode	Encode
H.264	h264_v4l2m2m (HW) / software	libx264 / h264_v4l2m2m
HEVC	hevc_v4l2m2m (HW, VideoCore VII)	libx265 (software — no HW encode on Pi 5)
VP8	libvpx	libvpx
VP9	libvpx-vp9	libvpx-vp9
AV1	libdav1d (NEON-optimized, fastest on ARM64)	libsvtav1 (fastest realtime)

Usage

Copy the static binary into another image:

COPY --from=ghcr.io/levitree/ffmpeg-minimal:latest /ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg