Thanks for the feedback. This is exactly the reason we are doing this, video uploading and encoding is one hell of a nasty problem - something people would be g

Thanks for the feedback. This is exactly the reason we are doing this, video uploading and encoding is one hell of a nasty problem - something people would be glad to knock of their todo list. In terms of dealing with the 2 problems: We've been working on this startup for 1.5 years by now, so we learned a lot of the things that aren't working by now : ). Basically we fix problems as they come in, try to get advice from the right people, and be smart about the way we deal with the command line tools. Thanks to node.js we can easily "time out" on hanging FFMPEGs and detect other weird error conditions. Anyway, I think our competition is ahead of us in terms of the encoding, but we'll catch up to them! We got the lead on uploading for the meantime : )