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As someone who encodes video for work with a ton of ffmpeg-based batch files, this article makes me feel like a child.
by whatever_dude 11y ago
As someone who encodes video for work with a ton of ffmpeg-based batch files, this article makes me feel like a child.
- Splines 11y agoI've done a bunch of playing with ffmpeg at home, and I imagine the tech stack is probably similar at Netflix, at least for the Source-->Chunk, Chunk-->Assemble, and Assembled-->Encode steps. The validation done during all of these is interesting. Netflix's early years are probably exactly like what you're doing - single file in, transcode, single file out and deploy. Chunking the pieces up is clever. Getting it right must have been challenging. How do you write an oracle for something that complex?
- jfb 11y agoHow do you write an oracle for something that complex? You start with a much smaller problem and incrementally build up.