AI & ML

Как я пытался создать шедевр в Qwen, Luma и Pika, и что из этого вышло

Помните, как полтора-два года назад в коротких видео стали появляться видео сомнительного качества, которые можно с легкостью пометить как сгенерирова…

Turn on CMCD: make your CDN logs explain rebuffering

TL;DR CMCD (Common Media Client Data, CTA-5004) lets your player attach its state (buffer length, bitrate, "I just rebuffered") to every segment reque…

Build scrub-bar thumbnail previews with FFmpeg and a WebVTT sprite

TL;DR We're going to add hover-preview thumbnails (the little image that follows your cursor on a video scrub bar) to a player. Backend is one FFmpeg …

Replacing a 5-service AWS video pipeline with one API call

TL;DR We had a video feature built on S3 + MediaConvert + CloudFront + a hand-rolled player + a half-finished CloudWatch dashboard. It worked, but eve…

AI, Gods and Selves: Incredibly Effective Illusions

Auto-Generate YouTube Thumbnails from Any Video (Make.com + FFmpeg)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com YouTube creators spend 10 to 20 minutes per video picking and editing a thumbnail. Multiply that by daily upl…

How to Use FFmpeg with C# (No Installation Required)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Most C# video processing guides start the same way: download an FFmpeg binary, add it to your PATH, then call…

FrameVOX: A Video Production CLI for Agent-Made Social Videos

FrameVOX: A Video Production CLI for Agent-Made Social Videos FrameVOX is my new video production project. Repository: https://github.com/tecnomanu/fr…

Why I built a native libmpv IPTV player for Windows — an HDR tone-mapping deep-dive

Up front, so there's no confusion: the app I'm describing (Nightmare TV) is a player only . You bring your own M3U / Xtream Codes playlist — it ships …

I was laid off by Atlassian

Two-pass loudness normalization with FFmpeg loudnorm (the right way)

TL;DR We normalize audio to a consistent perceived loudness using FFmpeg's loudnorm filter in two passes : pass 1 measures, pass 2 applies a linear ga…

Package one CMAF asset for Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay (no second encode)

TL;DR We package one CMAF asset encrypted with cbcs , emit an HLS and a DASH manifest from the same segments, and play it back with Shaka Player so Wi…

FFmpeg Segment Muxer: segment_time, strftime, and reset_timestamps

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com The FFmpeg segment muxer splits a video into multiple files based on duration. Three flags cause most of the …

"But it happened." - Casey Muratori's comment on Eric Schmidt's commencement speech

Build a video upload + HLS playback flow in Next.js 15 (with direct uploads)

TL;DR We're going to build a "user uploads a video, user watches the video" feature in a Next.js 15 app. The browser uploads directly to a managed vid…

How to Split Video into Segments with FFmpeg (CLI + API)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com . You need to chop a long video into equal-length clips. Maybe you're building a social media repurposing pip…

Veo 4 Doesn't Exist Yet, But People Are Already Selling It

I went looking for Google Veo 4 last week. I had three browser tabs open with "Veo 4" landing pages, a credit card warmed up, and 30 minutes blocked t…

How to Encode H.265 Video with FFmpeg (CRF + Preset Guide)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com H.265 (HEVC) produces files 30-50% smaller than H.264 at the same visual quality. The trade-off is encoding t…

Add real video QoE telemetry to your player in an afternoon

📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-qoe-starter — replace before publishing. TL;DR We'll instrument an HLS.js player to emit the three QoE metrics that actu…

FFmpeg Subtitles Filter: How to Burn SRT Subtitles Into Video

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com FFmpeg's subtitles filter burns SRT or ASS captions directly into the video pixels. Unlike soft subtitles (wh…

I tested 5 managed video APIs back-to-back — here's the rig and what shipped

📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-api-bakeoff — replace before publishing. TL;DR Same source file, same network, same code. I built a tiny Node + React ri…

Engineering a High-Performance Reddit Video Downloader: Decoding DASH, HLS, and Client-Side Transmuxing

As developers, we often perceive video downloading as a simple GET request to a .mp4 URL. However, modern social media giants like Reddit have moved f…

FFmpeg CRF Explained: Quality vs File Size Guide

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Every video encoder faces the same tradeoff: quality vs. file size. CRF (Constant Rate Factor) is how FFmpeg …

Деконструкция медиа-стека TikTok: построение высокопроизводительного движка экстракции видео без водяных знаков

Введение Для нас, разработчиков, TikTok — это не просто социальная сеть, а сложнейшая инженерная экосистема распределения контента. С точки зрения сис…

Bedah Arsitektur Media TikTok: Membangun Engine Ekstraksi Video Tanpa Watermark Berperforma Tinggi

Pendahuluan Sebagai software engineer, kita sering terpukau oleh bagaimana platform skala global seperti TikTok mengelola dan mendistribusikan volume …

How to Speed Up or Slow Down Video with FFmpeg

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com . You need to speed up a video for a timelapse effect or slow it down for dramatic slow motion. FFmpeg handle…

How to Generate Video Thumbnails with FFmpeg (CLI + API)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need a thumbnail from a video file. Maybe you're building a video gallery, generating preview images for …

A life update from Zach Oakes: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more

Zach Oakes, who some of you might know from his many Clojure projects, disappeared for a while. He recently posted this and a couple of videos about w…