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Work · October 4, 2024

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

Dear HN, I’m excited to show case a personal project. It has helped me quite a bit with my home lab, I hope it can help you with yours too! ffmpeg-over-ip has two components, a server and a client. You can run the server in an environment with access to a GPU and a locally installed version of ffmpeg, the client only needs network access to the server and no GPU or ffmpeg locally. Both and client and the server need a shared filesystem for this to work (so the server can write output to it, and client can read from it). In my usecase, smb works well if your (GPU) server is a windows machine,…

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers launched on October 4, 2024 with 147 votes, #329 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

FFmpeg-over-IP is a tool that lets users run FFmpeg tasks on a remote server with GPU access while controlling them from a client machine that needs neither GPU nor local FFmpeg installation. It consists of a server component that processes video using available GPU resources and a client that sends commands over the network. Both components require access to a shared filesystem for input and output file handling. The tool is designed for home lab environments where users want to centralize GPU resources across multiple virtual machines or simplify hardware passthrough setup.

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From the sources

Connect to remote ffmpeg servers. Contribute to steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Dear HN, I’m excited to show case a personal project. It has helped me quite a bit with my home lab, I hope it can help you with yours too! ffmpeg-over-ip has two components, a server and a client. You can run the server in an environment with access to a GPU and a locally installed version of ffmpeg, the client only…

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