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Awesome nice work! Does this work for video? I recently digitized about 80 home videos from 30-40 years ago. Each of the 80 videos is 2 hours of 5-10 minute r

by cj 2y ago

Awesome nice work! Does this work for video? I recently digitized about 80 home videos from 30-40 years ago. Each of the 80 videos is 2 hours of 5-10 minute recordings from the olden days when turning "record" on and off didn't automatically create a new video file. I've been wondering the best way to post-edit and share them with other people in my family.

orlevco 2y ago
Co-founder of MyPhotos here, First of all - thanks! Re: Videos - we currently don't support them but might add that capability in the future. Videos complicate things both in terms of the product and because they're much more expensive to store, so they'll complicate the unit economics. Regardless - online video storage is currently very expensive. The leading platforms are Vimeo and Wistia, so you might consider them for now. About editing - what are you looking to do? I'll try to point you in the right direction. Or
- atonse 2y ago
  Check out Cloudflare Stream and see if their prices might work.
  - gabigrin 2y ago
    Will do! thank you
  - tricked 2y ago
    you can also store the videos on plain r2 you just have to do a bit more manual work but its cheaper
- indigodaddy 2y ago
  You could get uncloudy and go with a provider with unmetered bandwidth and then use their storage slabs which present as block devices up to 10TB. So you could string together a PV/VG with eight 10TB slabs on a single server. I’d suspect the storage cost of this approach might even be similar or less than AWS glacier storage.. BuyVM has been around for a long time and very stable and excellent reputation. You’ll find that your costs would be much lower if you’d “uncloud” (I’m obviously assuming that you are using AWS or a cloud, but maybe not!) https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/
mceachen 2y ago
Thanks to ChatGPT (but not validated), here’s an ffmpeg one-liner that may segment based on large-scene-differences: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "select='gt(scene,0.4)',showinfo" -reset_timestamps 1 -vsync vfr -f segment output%03d.mp4 (Both Claude and ChatGPT are excellent at cooking up ffmpeg scripts, but sometimes you need to ask both, or reword the prompt a bit to get something that works)

by cj 2y ago

orlevco 2y ago

Co-founder of MyPhotos here, First of all - thanks! Re: Videos - we currently don't support them but might add that capability in the future. Videos complicate things both in terms of the product and because they're much more expensive to store, so they'll complicate the unit economics. Regardless - online video storage is currently very expensive. The leading platforms are Vimeo and Wistia, so you might consider them for now. About editing - what are you looking to do? I'll try to point you in the right direction. Or

atonse 2y ago
Check out Cloudflare Stream and see if their prices might work.
- gabigrin 2y ago
  Will do! thank you
- tricked 2y ago
  you can also store the videos on plain r2 you just have to do a bit more manual work but its cheaper
indigodaddy 2y ago
You could get uncloudy and go with a provider with unmetered bandwidth and then use their storage slabs which present as block devices up to 10TB. So you could string together a PV/VG with eight 10TB slabs on a single server. I’d suspect the storage cost of this approach might even be similar or less than AWS glacier storage.. BuyVM has been around for a long time and very stable and excellent reputation. You’ll find that your costs would be much lower if you’d “uncloud” (I’m obviously assuming that you are using AWS or a cloud, but maybe not!) https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/

mceachen 2y ago

Thanks to ChatGPT (but not validated), here’s an ffmpeg one-liner that may segment based on large-scene-differences: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "select='gt(scene,0.4)',showinfo" -reset_timestamps 1 -vsync vfr -f segment output%03d.mp4 (Both Claude and ChatGPT are excellent at cooking up ffmpeg scripts, but sometimes you need to ask both, or reword the prompt a bit to get something that works)