[Sir_Cmpwn]

Expanding on what doctorwho said:

    ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png

Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.

[shashashasha]

Totally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)

[Sir_Cmpwn]

    client_max_body_size 50M;

[shashashasha]

Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)