Posts tagged "ffmpeg"

Firebase video processing breaks on Cloud Functions' 9-minute timeout and in-memory /tmp. Offload FFmpeg to a hosted API and write results back to Storage.

FFmpeg concat different resolutions fails with -c copy. Two fixes that work: normalize then demux, or a one-pass filter_complex concat, plus how to pick.

What self-hosting the NCA Toolkit costs: Cloud Run's 5-minute wall, worker timeouts, bucket setup, and CVE patching, plus a side-by-side API comparison.

Clip, caption, and reformat video in one n8n workflow: three chained FFmpeg Micro API jobs, so n8n passes URLs, never video bytes, with no servers to run.

FFmpeg's "height not divisible by 2" error is a yuv420p chroma constraint, not a broken file. Three fixes (scale=-2, trunc, pad) with measured output sizes.

UGC video ad testing gets expensive in the variant matrix, not the shoot. Build hook, CTA, and aspect ratio variants from one base clip with FFmpeg or one call.

"moov atom not found" almost never means a corrupt video. It means a truncated upload or a Range request that missed the trailing moov box. Check and fix it.

A video processing API for a SaaS product beats a media microservice: real TCO of FFmpeg on Lambda vs Fargate, plus a one-call endpoint you ship today.

The ffmpeg side by side recipe that actually works: hstack needs matching heights, vstack matching widths, and shortest=1 stops the short clip freezing.

Running FFmpeg in Python means shelling out to the same binary. Get the subprocess pattern that works, the library trade-offs, and a one-call API option.