Resque does not find ffmpeg

Question

I am using resque to queue some encoding jobs. I have workers that pick up these jobs and do some transcoding. The issue is system "mencoder .." works fine but system "ffmpeg .." throws not found and the same to with system "qt-faststart .." I installed mencoder using sudo apt-get install. ffmpeg and qt-faststart were built from source. So mencoder was in /usr/bin and the other two in /usr/local/bin. So, the next thing I tried was using full path in the system command, that also returned not found. Then I copied ffmpeg and qt-faststart into /usr/bin.. Still got "Not Found" My worker code runs standalone but when god runs it, ffmpeg and qt-fasstart fail to execute. Yes, I have god configured to watch resque. Now, I don't know what else to try! Any ideas?

Answer 1

Obvious and simplest way it just give system method full path. like this

system("/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg")

but really this should not exist as a problem in first place, especially you saying that coping do not help.

Try to print ENV['PATH'] from resque perform method

it may help to understand what problem is, and of course make sure ffmpeg located in /usr/local/bin/

which ffmpeg