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FFmpeg

Homepage

https://ffmpeg.org/ 

What is it?

An open-source library for processing and transforming videos.

Why did we choose it?

It's open source, well maintained, and extremely powerful.

What do we use it for?

Resizing and re-encoding user video uploads.uploads for fast previewing within the artwork submission forms. We use FFmpeg insideto ancreate AWSa Lambdavideo cloud function, where we can resize videos and re-encode them usingcontaining the x265first encoder,10 givingseconds a much lower filesize without any loss in quality vsof the moreoriginal commonvideo, x264allowing encoder.for easy previews whilst not taking ages to finish processing.