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CI: retry + GitHub mirror fallback for the static-ffmpeg download #95

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10 changes: 6 additions & 4 deletions .github/actions/static-ffmpeg/action.yml
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Expand Up @@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ runs:
env:
FFMPEG_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version }}
run: |
curl -LO "https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
tar xf "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
# fetch-ffmpeg.sh retries and falls back to the GitHub mirror:
# ffmpeg.org resets from runners took out the v1.9.1 release.
bash "$GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/fetch-ffmpeg.sh"
cd "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}"
./configure --prefix="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/ffmpeg-static" \
--disable-everything --disable-programs --disable-doc \
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FFMPEG_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version }}
run: |
brew install nasm
curl -LO "https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
tar xf "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
# fetch-ffmpeg.sh retries and falls back to the GitHub mirror:
# ffmpeg.org resets from runners took out the v1.9.1 release.
bash "$GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/fetch-ffmpeg.sh"
# --enable-cross-compile on the native slice too: it only turns
# off configure-time runtime probing, and keeps both invocations
# identical.
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions .github/actions/static-ffmpeg/build-windows.sh
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Expand Up @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ rm -f /usr/bin/link.exe

pacman -Sy --noconfirm --needed make nasm diffutils xz

curl -LO "https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
tar xf "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
# fetch-ffmpeg.sh retries and falls back to the GitHub mirror:
# ffmpeg.org resets from the Windows runners took out the v1.9.1
# release twice, an hour apart.
bash "$(dirname "$0")/fetch-ffmpeg.sh"
cd "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}"

prefix="$(cygpath -u "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE")/ffmpeg-static"
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23 changes: 23 additions & 0 deletions .github/actions/static-ffmpeg/fetch-ffmpeg.sh
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Fetch and unpack the FFmpeg source into ./ffmpeg-$FFMPEG_VERSION.
# ffmpeg.org first (the canonical release tarball), then the GitHub tag
# archive: ffmpeg.org reset connections from the Windows runners for
# over an hour straight (it failed the v1.9.1 release's Windows job
# twice, an hour apart), and tag n<version> is the same source served
# from infrastructure Actions runners can always reach.
set -euo pipefail

fetch() {
curl -fL --retry 5 --retry-delay 2 --retry-all-errors -o "$2" "$1"
}

if fetch "https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz" \
"ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"; then
tar xf "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
else
echo "ffmpeg.org unreachable, using the GitHub mirror" >&2
fetch "https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/archive/refs/tags/n${FFMPEG_VERSION}.tar.gz" \
"ffmpeg-github.tar.gz"
tar xf ffmpeg-github.tar.gz
mv "FFmpeg-n${FFMPEG_VERSION}" "ffmpeg-${FFMPEG_VERSION}"
fi
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