Frame-accurate FFmpeg trimming without re-encoding the whole file
TL;DR -c copy can only cut on keyframes, so your 12.4s trim starts wherever the last keyframe was. We'll build a smart-trim script that probes keyfr…
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PPTX → озвученный MP4: как устроен пайплайн, который не ждёт сам себя
Есть презентация и текст лекции — нужен MP4, где каждый слайд висит ровно столько, сколько звучит озвучка. Прототип собирается за час, а дальше начи…
Скролл-фильм на лендинге весил 84 МБ. WebCodecs ужал его до 18 — вот что сработало, а что нет
Скролл-фильм на лендинге — это обычно сотни WebP и десятки мегабайт. Рассказываю, как заменил секвенции кадров сырым H.264-потоком без контейнера и…
How I recorded my first product demo in 54 seconds (OBS, ffmpeg, openai.fm)
I shipped my first product demo video this week for Convertify (my free image converter). 54 seconds, no team, no budget. Here is the exact toolchai…
FFmpeg.wasm in production: deadlocks, a 2 GB ceiling and a codec that lies to users
FFmpeg.wasm can hang forever with no error, no log and no way out except killing the tab. That happened to roughly one in ten heavy jobs before I sh…
Four Ways My Unattended Video Pipeline Died Overnight — and How I Made It Heal Itself
The morning after I lost my job, my Mac finished and filed an ASMR video. Nobody asked it to. It just ran. In the first post, I walked through the s…
Zero GPU Cost and 4-Minute Daily Runs — Making Real Rain Fall on a Still Image with ffmpeg displace
A 30-minute ASMR rain video costs me nothing but electricity, and the daily job that builds it dropped from 7–8 minutes to a little over 4. No video…
I redacted my username from a screen recording three times and missed it every time
Originally published on my own site . I make a desktop AI agent. I recorded a demo of it writing files, and the approval dialog showed /Users/<my…
Detect variable frame rate uploads with ffprobe and normalize them before they break your pipeline
TL;DR Screen recordings from OBS, QuickTime, Loom and phone capture are variable frame rate. Feed them to a transcoder that assumes constant frame r…
Converting iPhone HEVC Videos to Telegram Video Avatars With ffmpeg
The Silent Failure Nobody Warns You About You take a nice short clip on your iPhone. You open Telegram, go to Settings, tap your avatar, choose "Set…
HTML in, MP4 out: rendering a video with HyperFrames instead of an editor
Originally published on dhseadev.online . I did not open a video editor to make this. I described a video, and the agent stack I run every day rende…
Mediax: FFmpeg's Cooler Cousin 🚀
FFmpeg is powerful, but the syntax? A nightmare. So I built Mediax. 36 intuitive verbs. Interactive TUI. One-line install. Convert, compress, trim,…
I built a friendlier FFmpeg with 36 verbs and a TUI (and it's one line to install)
Mediax: FFmpeg's Cooler Cousin 🚀 FFmpeg is powerful, but the syntax? A nightmare. So I built Mediax. 36 intuitive verbs. Interactive TUI. One-line i…
LiveAvaBot Developer API: Embed Telegram Video Avatar Conversion in Your App
I built @liveavabot last year to fix a stupid problem: iPhone videos silently fail as Telegram video avatars. The bot has processed conversions for…
Why Upscaling the Wrong Video File Makes Quality Worse: A Source-First Diagnostic Workflow
Disclosure: I work on PixelatedFix and have a commercial interest in video-quality diagnostics. The workflow below starts with source recovery, corr…
Как перестать переснимать обучающие видео после каждого редизайна
У нас было несколько обучающих видео по личному кабинету. После большого редизайна большая часть стала неактуальной: кнопки переехали…
AV2 shipped its 1.0 encoder. Here's what to actually run in your pipeline instead.
TL;DR AOMedia released the AV2 reference encoder (1.0.0) at the end of May 2026. It's real, it's about 30% more efficient than AV1 on paper, and you…
FFmpeg 8.0 in practice: transcribe with the Whisper filter and probe av1_vulkan
TL;DR FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" adds a native whisper audio filter (transcription is now a filter, not a separate service) and av1_vulkan , a cross-vendo…
My AI makes YouTube videos. It's only allowed to publish after 21 automated checks.
I run a YouTube channel where an AI agent does everything — picks topics from its own analytics, writes the script, renders the animation, directs i…
The state of media processing in Rust (2026): what each crate actually covers
Every few months someone asks how to decode video or pull audio samples in Rust, and the thread converges on the same advice: just run the ffmpeg bi…
"Is it actually running?" — the night I asked three times while stitching 17 images into one video
I run a little pipeline that builds history-explainer videos end to end — script, narration, images, video — all automatically, all by myself. Up un…
🛠️ How to Run a Privacy-First, Browser-Based Stream Downloader (FlowPick) — A Hands-On Tutorial
Hey folks 👋 If you've ever wanted to save a video lecture, a livestream replay, or a podcast episode for offline listening, you've probably run into…
Extracting video frames in Rust, in-process — no CLI, no hand-written decode loop
Here is a task that comes up constantly. You are doing inference in Rust — candle, burn, ort — and you want to feed a video to a model. Step one is…
FFmpeg в браузере: как мы сделали медиа-конвертер, который ни разу не обращается к серверу
Конвертация медиа. Люди решают эту задачу десятки раз в неделю. Видео с дрона нужно перевести в MP4 для мессенджера, HEIC с айфона в JPEG для сайта,…
Why iPhone Videos Silently Fail as Telegram Avatars (FFmpeg Fix)
My girlfriend tried to set a video avatar on her Telegram profile last month. Fresh clip from her iPhone 15, under ten seconds, looked great. Telegr…
Running FFmpeg on Heroku: The Ephemeral-Filesystem Trap (and the Fix)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Your FFmpeg pipeline works on localhost. You push to Heroku, trigger a transcode, and the job vanishes. No…
How to Flip a Video with FFmpeg (hflip and vflip Filters)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Front-facing camera footage is mirrored. Text reads backwards, logos are reversed, and the left-right orien…
How to Use FFmpeg with Bun
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com . You're building something in Bun and you need video processing. Thumbnail generation, format conversion,…
Как я превратил Real‑ESRGAN и FFmpeg в потоковый Windows‑апскейлер без гигантских временных папок
Апскейлинг одного изображения через Real-ESRGAN обычно не вызывает особых проблем: выбираем модель, запускаем обработку и получаем результат. Но при…
How to Process Video in Retool with FFmpeg Micro API
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Retool makes it easy to build internal dashboards, admin panels, and data tools. But the moment someone on…