ffmpeg

Recipe card from the charly-selkies plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

ffmpeg – FFmpeg multimedia

Candy Properties

Property	Value
Install files	`charly.yml` (packages only)
Depends	none
Repo	negativo17 `fedora-multimedia`

Packages

RPM: ffmpeg (from negativo17 fedora-multimedia repo — full nonfree build with H.264, AAC, etc.)

Note: This is NOT ffmpeg-free (RPM Fusion). This is the negativo17 build which includes nonfree codecs required for H.264 encoding/decoding.

Usage

# a box composing this candy — the candy list is inline
my-box:
  candy:
    base: fedora
    candy: [ffmpeg]

All candies that need ffmpeg should declare it as a dependency rather than independently adding the negativo17 repo. This ensures a single authoritative install point.

Used In Boxes

openclaw-full (via openclaw-full metalayer)
hermes (via hermes candy require: ffmpeg)
hermes-playwright (via hermes candy require: ffmpeg)
immich (via immich candy require: ffmpeg)
immich-ml (via immich candy require: ffmpeg)
CUDA-based boxes (via cuda candy require: ffmpeg)
Whisper-based boxes (via whisper candy require: ffmpeg)

/charly-distros:cuda — Depends on ffmpeg for GPU video processing
/charly-tools:whisper — Depends on ffmpeg for audio transcoding
/charly-hermes:hermes — Depends on ffmpeg for media tooling
/charly-immich:immich — Depends on ffmpeg for photo/video transcoding

/charly-build:build — Builds the ffmpeg negativo17 RPM into the box
/charly-core:shell — Interactive shell to run ffmpeg for media processing

When to Use This Skill

Use when the user asks about:

FFmpeg in containers
Multimedia processing tools
The ffmpeg candy

/charly-image:layer — candy authoring reference (charly.yml schema, run:/check: step verbs, service declarations)
/charly-check:check — declarative testing (check: block, charly check box, charly check live)