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Overview
Most cloud providers have some form of dedicated transcoding service that is specifically designe...
Implementing an animated preview generator
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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
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JSON.stringify
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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...