ffplayout_engine Installation

Here are a description on how to install ffplayout engine on a standard Linux server.

Requirements

install ffmpeg, ffprobe (and ffplay if you need the preview mode)
clone repo to /opt/: git clone https://github.com/ffplayout/ffplayout_engine.git
cd /opt/ffplayout_engine
create virtual environment: virtualenv -p python3 venv
run source ./venv/bin/activate
install dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
create logging folder: /var/log/ffplayout
create playlists folder, in that format: /playlists/year/month
create folder for media storage: /tv-media
set variables in config file to your needs

systemd is required

copy docs/ffplayout_engine-multichannel.service to /etc/systemd/system/
change user and group in service file (for example to www-data)
copy ffplayout.yml to /etc/ffplayout/ffplayout-001.yml
copy docs/supervisor folder to /etc/ffplayout/
every channel needs its own engine config ffplayout-002.yml, ffplayout-003.yml, etc.
every channel needs also its own service file under /etc/ffplayout/supervisor/config.d
create for every channel a subfolder for logging: /var/log/ffplayout/channel-001, /var/log/ffplayout/channel-002, etc.
edit /etc/ffplayout/ffplayout-00.yml*
when you want to use the web frontend, create only the first channel and the other ones in the frontend
activate service: sudo systemctl enable ffplayout_engine-multichannel
when playlists are exists, run service: sudo systemctl start ffplayout_engine-multichannel

Of course you can just run it too. Install only the dependencies from requirements.txt and run it with python ffplayout.py [parameters].