I know that I talked a lot, let’s start: Compile Resources:įirst thing first, compile your resources. FFMPEG is a binary based tool, which means, it needs to be compiled in the right way to let the OS of the hosted server to understand how to deal with.Īll of us know Lambda limitations and how it could be painful.

I used it in a basic way to take smaller versions of the uploaded videos. I used FFMPEG a lot previously, I liked it and the much of benefits that I got from. One of them is to make shorter version of the uploaded media if its a video! COOL, But, HOW? Hmm, another set of scenarios that I can reduce the billing of retrieving these media. But these are APIs and it follows Serverless structure. Yes, you can cache links on the browser or with CloudFront, if you’re using one. But as a Solutions Architect, I noticed that calling videos all the time to be shown and no one is taking any extra advantage from the calls makes me worried about the billing (S3 call, Data transfer and other small things). Last week, I got a new task that I need to make thumbnails for images and videos.

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