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mediaproc

Process media files (video, audio, images) via a locked-down SSH container with ffmpeg, sox, and imagemagick. Use when the user wants to transcode video, pro...

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mediaproc

Locked-down media processing over SSH. Built on lockbox — no shell access, no injection, no bullshit.

For installation and deployment, see references/setup.md.

SSH Wrapper

Use scripts/mediaproc.sh for all commands. It handles host, port, and host key acceptance via MEDIAPROC_HOST and MEDIAPROC_PORT env vars.

scripts/mediaproc.sh <command> [args]
scripts/mediaproc.sh <command> < input_file
scripts/mediaproc.sh <command> > output_file

Media Tools

| Command | Description | | ---------- | -------------------------------------------- | | ffmpeg | Video/audio encoding, transcoding, filtering | | ffprobe | Media file analysis | | sox | Audio processing | | soxi | Audio file info | | convert | Image conversion/manipulation (ImageMagick) | | identify | Image file info (ImageMagick) | | magick | ImageMagick CLI |

Upload, Process, Download

# Upload
scripts/mediaproc.sh "put input.mp4" < input.mp4

# Transcode
scripts/mediaproc.sh "ffmpeg -i /work/input.mp4 -c:v libx264 /work/output.mp4"

# Download result
scripts/mediaproc.sh "get output.mp4" > output.mp4

# Clean up
scripts/mediaproc.sh "remove-file input.mp4"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "remove-file output.mp4"

Video Operations

# Get video info as JSON
scripts/mediaproc.sh "ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams /work/video.mp4"

# Apply frei0r glow effect
scripts/mediaproc.sh "ffmpeg -i /work/in.mp4 -vf frei0r=glow:0.5 /work/out.mp4"

# Extract audio from video
scripts/mediaproc.sh "ffmpeg -i /work/video.mp4 -vn -acodec libmp3lame /work/audio.mp3"

# Create thumbnail from video
scripts/mediaproc.sh "ffmpeg -i /work/video.mp4 -ss 00:00:05 -vframes 1 /work/thumb.jpg"

Audio Operations

# Convert audio format
scripts/mediaproc.sh "sox /work/input.wav /work/output.mp3"

# Get audio info
scripts/mediaproc.sh "soxi /work/audio.wav"

# Normalize audio
scripts/mediaproc.sh "sox /work/input.wav /work/output.wav norm"

Image Operations

# Resize image
scripts/mediaproc.sh "convert /work/input.png -resize 50% /work/output.png"

# Create thumbnail
scripts/mediaproc.sh "convert /work/input.jpg -thumbnail 200x200 /work/thumb.jpg"

# Get image info
scripts/mediaproc.sh "identify /work/image.png"

File Operations

All paths relative to the work directory. Traversal blocked.

| Command | Description | | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | put <path> | Upload file from stdin | | get <path> | Download file to stdout | | list-files [--json] | List directory | | remove-file <path> | Delete a file | | create-dir <path> | Create directory | | remove-dir <path> | Remove empty directory | | remove-dir-recursive <path> | Remove directory recursively | | move-file <src> <dst>| Move or rename | | copy-file <src> <dst>| Copy a file | | file-info <path> | Get file metadata as JSON | | file-exists <path> | Check if file exists (true/false) | | file-hash <path> | Get SHA256 hash | | disk-usage [path] | Get bytes used | | search-files <glob> | Glob search | | append-file <path> | Append stdin to a file |

# List files
scripts/mediaproc.sh "list-files"

# List as JSON (size, modified, isDir, permissions)
scripts/mediaproc.sh "list-files --json"

# List subdirectory
scripts/mediaproc.sh "list-files project1"

# File operations
scripts/mediaproc.sh "create-dir project1"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "move-file old.mp4 new.mp4"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "copy-file input.mp4 backup.mp4"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "file-info video.mp4"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "file-exists video.mp4"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "file-hash video.mp4"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "search-files '*.mp4'"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "disk-usage"
scripts/mediaproc.sh "remove-dir-recursive project1"

Plugins

  • frei0r — Video effect plugins (used via -vf frei0r=...)
  • LADSPA — Audio effect plugins: SWH, TAP, CMT (used via -af ladspa=...)
  • LV2 — Audio plugins (used via -af lv2=...)

Fonts

2200+ fonts included covering emoji, CJK, Arabic, Thai, Indic, monospace, and more. Custom fonts can be mounted to /usr/share/fonts/custom.