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…
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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…
Build an AI dubbing pipeline: faster-whisper + XTTS-v2 + FFmpeg
TL;DR We're building a script that takes a video in English and produces the same video narrated in Spanish, in a cloned version of the original speak…
Playing HLS through Managed Media Source on iPhone with hls.js
TL;DR iPhone Safari never supported Media Source Extensions, so JS-driven players fell back to native HLS. Since iOS 17.1, Apple ships Managed Media S…
Force keyframe-aligned GOPs across an ABR ladder with FFmpeg
TL;DR If your stream hitches on quality switches but shows zero rebuffering, your ABR renditions probably have keyframes in different places. We'll en…
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…
ASR-generated subtitles vs forced alignment: why script-first captions fail less
A mistake I keep seeing in subtitle tools is simple but expensive: someone already has an approved script, but the workflow still starts by transcribi…
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 …
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…
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…
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 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…
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 …