Architecture

Building a Perceptual Hash Pipeline for Video Deduplication in Python

A single viral clip never stays a single file. Within hours of a video trending, our crawlers pull the "same" clip back a dozen times: re-encoded at a…

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 ou…

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

FFmpeg chromakey Filter: Remove Green Screen Backgrounds

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Green screen removal is one of those FFmpeg operations that looks simple until you actually try it. Most tuto…

Shipping Async Video Background Removal at $0.10/sec

Why async matters for video I've been running useKnockout - a background removal API that processes images in ~200ms - for a few months. Images are fa…

The "AI avatar generator" category is three rendering architectures wearing one label

If you evaluate AI avatar tools as if they're interchangeable — type a script, get a talking head — you'll pick the wrong one and then blame the tool.…

Ship a 'Go Live' button: OBS in, LL-HLS out, webhooks in between

TL;DR We're adding live streaming to a SaaS dashboard: a backend endpoint that creates a stream, OBS as the broadcaster over RTMPS, LL-HLS playback wi…

5 video APIs compared on what's included before you pay extra (2026)

📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-api-bench - replace before publishing TL;DR The per-minute delivery rate is the easiest number to compare and the least …

Build a UGC video moderation pipeline with FFmpeg + NudeNet

TL;DR If your product lets strangers upload video, you need moderation before launch, not after the first bad upload. We will build a small-team pipel…

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…

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…

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 …