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Hi this is Tim. I made this website. It's currently running on a $5 droplet on DigitalOcean so conversions will take a while. I'm testing out the waters here on

Hi this is Tim. I made this website. It's currently running on a $5 droplet on DigitalOcean so conversions will take a while. I'm testing out the waters here on HN to see if there's anyone interested in it. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding it. Github: https://github.com/TimDaub/ipfs-hls-converter https://github.com/TimDaub/ipfs-hls-converter Edit: I haven't chosen I license for this yet, sorry.

donaltroddyn 8y ago
I think you're experiencing the Slashdot effect.
haywirez 8y ago
What did you end up using for queueing conversion jobs?
- timdaub 8y ago
  Fantastic question. I'm not even doing that yet. How embarrassing! Right now I'm just spawning sub processes like crazy and hope they don't overwhelm my machine. In the future, I plan to use a queue and also to monetize on API queries. I haven't looked into queues in Javascript yet. If you have recommendations, that be appreciated :) This is really just an MVP to see how the internet crowd reacts to it. I'm glad it does in a positive way :)
  - tyingq 8y ago
    Haven't used it, but "bull" shows transcoding as their example, so I assume they've run through your use case: https://github.com/OptimalBits/bull https://github.com/OptimalBits/bull
    - haywirez 8y ago
      Don't use bull, use NATS[1] - happy with it so far with the Node SDK. [1] https://nats.io https://nats.io
      - tyingq 8y ago
        That seems more messaging oriented than job oriented. Does it manage job concurrency limits, time outs, etc?
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      - dvlsg 8y ago
        Why do you say not to use bull? I've been quite happy with bull in our production environments so far.
  - vorticalbox 8y ago
    RabbitMQ is what we use at work or sns for messages to lambdas.
jgh 8y ago
Why are you transcoding all the time? You could probably save your little droplet a bit of heartache by using ffprobe to check if the video is already h264 (or h265)+aac and just do -c copy in that case.
- timdaub 8y ago
  That's a great suggestion. I'll add that to my list of todos!
anderspitman 8y ago
Did you look into using something like ffmpeg.js to do the heavy lifting client-side? Note I have no idea if ffmpeg.js supports all the features you need (ie HLS).
- timdaub 8y ago
  I didn't even know that existed, but now I will definitely take a look! Thanks for the feedback!

donaltroddyn 8y ago

I think you're experiencing the Slashdot effect.

haywirez 8y ago

What did you end up using for queueing conversion jobs?

timdaub 8y ago
Fantastic question. I'm not even doing that yet. How embarrassing! Right now I'm just spawning sub processes like crazy and hope they don't overwhelm my machine. In the future, I plan to use a queue and also to monetize on API queries. I haven't looked into queues in Javascript yet. If you have recommendations, that be appreciated :) This is really just an MVP to see how the internet crowd reacts to it. I'm glad it does in a positive way :)
- tyingq 8y ago
  Haven't used it, but "bull" shows transcoding as their example, so I assume they've run through your use case: https://github.com/OptimalBits/bull https://github.com/OptimalBits/bull
  - haywirez 8y ago
    Don't use bull, use NATS[1] - happy with it so far with the Node SDK. [1] https://nats.io https://nats.io
    - tyingq 8y ago
      That seems more messaging oriented than job oriented. Does it manage job concurrency limits, time outs, etc?
      - deleted 8y ago
        [deleted]
    - dvlsg 8y ago
      Why do you say not to use bull? I've been quite happy with bull in our production environments so far.
- vorticalbox 8y ago
  RabbitMQ is what we use at work or sns for messages to lambdas.

jgh 8y ago

Why are you transcoding all the time? You could probably save your little droplet a bit of heartache by using ffprobe to check if the video is already h264 (or h265)+aac and just do -c copy in that case.

timdaub 8y ago
That's a great suggestion. I'll add that to my list of todos!

anderspitman 8y ago

Did you look into using something like ffmpeg.js to do the heavy lifting client-side? Note I have no idea if ffmpeg.js supports all the features you need (ie HLS).

timdaub 8y ago
I didn't even know that existed, but now I will definitely take a look! Thanks for the feedback!