Sisyphus Client

Introduction

The sisyphus-client is the worker client for the Sisyphus distributed encoding system. It's responsible for polling the server queue for jobs, processing those jobs, and generally doing all of the hard work.

Jobs are simply a set of tasks with each task calling a Sisyphus module to accomplish specific things. Currently, the default modules that can be used are:

• ffmpeg: A Ffmpeg module that uses ffmpeg to encode various sources.
• handbrake: (New in 1.5.0) A HandBrake module that uses handbrake for encoding.
• mkvmerge: A Matroska muxing module that can be used to mux one or more source files together.
• mkvextract: A Matroska module that can extract a myriad of things to include streams, chapter information, and tag information.
• cleanup: A cleanup module used to cleanup any temporary files left over from the job, or to move/copy files from one location or the other.

For more information on Sisyphus (and the sisyphus-client), you can read the documentation here.

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• docker installed
• The Sisyphus API server installed

Procedure

1. Clone the sisyphus-client repository.

   git clone https://github.com/JamesTheBard/sisyphus-client

2. Navigate to the docker directory.

   cd sisyphus-client/docker

3. Run the Docker Compose file in the directory.

   export API_URL="http://api.server.url.here:5000"
   export HOST_UUID="00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444"
   docker compose up -d

4. Verify that the container has started successfully by querying the API server for available workers. The new worker should appear in the /workers list.

   curl -X GET http://api.server.url.here:5000/workers

   {
     "workers": [
       {
         "status": "idle",
         "hostname": "encode001",
         "version": "1.3.4",
         "online_at": "2023-10-02 16:39:02.714402+00:00",
         "worker_id": "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444",
         "attributes": {
           "disabled": false
         }
       }
     ],
     "count": 1
   }