The Video I Kept Avoiding
I had this one video sitting on my desktop for days. Not a polished video. Not something I was excited to edit. Just one of those long recordings wher…
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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…
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 …
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…
Недостающее звено при обработке медиа на Go
Большинство медиа-библиотек для Go рано или поздно упираются в одну и ту же проблему. У них нет собственного декодера. Вместо этого они полагаются на …
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 …
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…
Starting my own Content Delivery Network
The accompanying post has latency measurements https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2026/asn_cdn/ Comments
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…