This guide will show you how to enable video previews on NextCloud hosted on Debian/Ubuntu. You can apply the same steps if you are running the Docker version of NextCloud or different distribution.
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What is NextCloud?
NextCloud allows you to share files in a similar way to Dropbox and Google Drive. It is, however, more than a file share! You can use it as a collaboration platform and customize it with a wide selection of useful apps.
What is FFmpeg?
FFmpeg is a multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play almost anything multimedia format. Also, FFmpeg runs on a wide variety of build environments, machine architectures, and configurations.
Install FFmpeg for video previews
Follow these steps to enable video, image, and PDF previews on your NextCloud.
Standard install
First, you want to update your Linux distribution.
sudo apt updateSecond, you want to install FFmpeg using the following command:
sudo apt install ffmpegDocker install
You can also enable video previews in NextCloud using Docker.
The example below shows you how to do this using Docker exec:
/usr/bin/docker exec -it --user root {{ your_container_name }} /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y ffmpeg'You will, of course, need to replace “{{ your_container_name }}” with the name of your container. Additionally, note that you may need to rerun this command if you restart your container. However, you can overcome this by building a new Docker image.
Configure NextCloud previews
Next, you must edit your config.php file and add the following lines:
'enable_previews' => true,
'enabledPreviewProviders' =>
array (
0 => 'OC\\Preview\\Movie',
1 => 'OC\\Preview\\PNG',
2 => 'OC\\Preview\\JPEG',
3 => 'OC\\Preview\\GIF',
4 => 'OC\\Preview\\BMP',
5 => 'OC\\Preview\\XBitmap',
6 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP3',
7 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP4',
8 => 'OC\\Preview\\TXT',
9 => 'OC\\Preview\\MarkDown',
10 => 'OC\\Preview\\PDF',
),
The configuration mentioned above will enable the movie, PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, XBitmap, MP3, MP4, TXT, Markdown, and PDF preview provider within NextCloud.
Wrapping up
In conclusion, you have now configured your NextCloud to display video previews on Debian/Ubuntu installs.
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thanks for the write up, just made my new nextcloud deployment that much better for me.