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Overview
Most cloud providers have some form of dedicated transcoding service that is specifically designe...
Implementing an animated preview generator
Generating animated previews with ffmpeg The basic command for animated preview generation looks...
Using a pre-built video transcoding solution
A lot of cloud providers, particularly CDN providers, offer some form of video streaming service,...
Considerations for displaying upload previews
Depending on your use case, and how long it's acceptable for your users to wait, there's a few di...
Video Formats and Codecs
Just like with images, choosing your video codec is a crucial performance and quality considerati...
Variable evaluation and race conditions
Suppose we have some code like this: // elementsArray is an array of 10 jQuery objects for (let...
CloudFront
Homepage https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ What is it? AWS' CDN offering. Why did we choose ...
ZohoMail
Homepage https://www.zoho.com/mail/ What is it? It provides email services, specifically the k...
JSON.stringify
Certain objects (like Maps) can't be stringified directly - you'll get an empty object as the res...
Implementation: MediaConvert
To transcode large video files that a serverless code function can't handle, you need to use a de...
Using a pre-built CDN image transcoding solution
When transcoding images, you have two options: use a prebuilt solution, or make one. Most CDN pr...
Implementing an image transcoding solution yourself
If you are going to implement your own image transcoding solution, the first thing to understand ...
Configuring SNS
Implementation: EventBridge & Lambda
Getting the result of the MediaConvert job Since creating the job command doesn't tell us anythi...
Use cases and limitations
Serverless code functions definitely can have a place in video transcoding, but because of the mu...
Implementation
Prerequisites Before reading this page, read the page on implementing image transcoding solution...
Internal Credentials
Various development credentials are cached in the main cache server. A full list can be found in ...
Efficiency Overview
Transcoding: what it is, and why it is important
Definition Transcoding means resizing an image or other media to multiple sizes, so that users c...
Image Formats and Codecs
Image quality (particularly important for JPEGs) For JPEGs in particular, quality is not just a ...