[lucideer]

Everyone is replying to you mentioning HLS, which (as your edit mentions) isn't described in the article.

Which is... a bit shocking. From the title of the article, I assumed the content would be related to hosting video. HLS was the first thing that came to mind and I assumed it'd be mentioned up top. I clicked to see if it listed any HTTP-related considerations I wasn't aware of in addition to HLS.

Turns out it's just an advertisement for a (very non-video-specific) CDN service, with some lines tacked on at the end telling you to use Handbrake (oddly, the cli, rather tham ffmpeg???)

[unethical_ban]

It is a tutorial for stringing together a bunch of tools to transcode a video to multiple formats, upload it to S3, and pull that to a cheap CDN (that does get complimented heavily).

And it spawned a great discussion about self-hosting.

[strunz]

Handbrake CLI is great and much more user friendly than ffmpeg

[anthk]

Handbrake crashed me twice while ffmpeg did several tasks without even locking.

[poxrud]

You can use HLS with the described CDN, since it's just http.