Posts tagged "api"

Video encoding for pipelines, not streaming services: the three settings that matter, the exact FFmpeg command, the one-call API version, and encode costs.

Video transcoding is demux, decode, filter, re-encode, remux. The pipeline version: one file at platform spec as an FFmpeg command, a REST job, or n8n node.

OpenAI Agents API MCP setup: wire an MCP server into your agent so it can trim, caption and reframe video, plus handling async video jobs without blocking.

Zapier video processing has no FFmpeg step and a 150 MB file cap. What Zaps can really do with video, and where you need to hand the encode to a video API.

The Sora API shutdown alternative for n8n: swap in an async Veo 3.1 or Kling 3.0 call, then normalize the output with reframe, concat, captions and audio mix.

ffmpeg-kit-react-native is retired and its binaries 404. What each FFmpeg React Native option can still do, and how to offload the encode server side.

Lovable video processing fails because Supabase Edge Functions run Deno and can't run FFmpeg. The fix: Supabase Storage, a signed URL, and one video API call.

expo-camera records ~95 MB per minute at 720p with no bitrate or fps control. Expo video compression options compared, plus the pipeline that fixes it.

Webhooks for long running video jobs fail quietly. Use the hint-plus-reconciler pattern: verify signatures, key idempotency on job ID, add a polling backstop.

TikTok video specs in one place: 1080x1920, H.264, 10 minutes, 500 MB mobile vs 4 GB web, plus the real FFmpeg preset and the Content Posting API rules.