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by eric_khun 2279 days ago
Question related to video encoding: We are spending quite a bit of money on Amazon ElasticTranscoder for video encoding. Wondering if anyone had experience or advices to selfhost that kind of service? Any project I should consider for a proof of concept?
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dodobirdlord 2279 days ago
Elastic Transcoder is hilariously expensive. And in traditional Amazon fashion, is just a roundabout way to call ffmpeg. You would almost certainly be better off bundling ffmpeg into a Lambda function, and you would almost certainly be best off with an EC2 instance, two S3 buckets for the input/output, and an SQS work queue.

Check out https://github.com/binoculars/aws-lambda-ffmpeg.

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tallgiraffe 2278 days ago
Exactly what I was looking for lately. Thank you!
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trevyn 2279 days ago
A script that calls ffmpeg? What exactly are your needs?
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