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Are ffmpeg user interested in a cloud base solution? You push the input files, the command, and fetch the output when done.
by siscia 2y ago
Are ffmpeg user interested in a cloud base solution?
You push the input files, the command, and fetch the output when done.
- pjc50 2y agoThere's quite a few cloud services built around it already, but not usually so loose or general. I can see it being expensive to run.
- siscia 2y agoThe plan would it be to charge it at cost plus. Whatever the user is consuming plus a markup.
- nosioptar 2y agoI use Ffmpeg. I have zero interest in cloud based Ffmpeg. Maybe if it was really cheap and the servers could process the job in a small fraction of the time it takes locally. Otherwise, I'd just run it locally. If you built a ui that made it easier to use as part of the offering, it'd make sense for a lot of people.
- siscia 2y agoThanks! Why you think that an UI would make sense? An UI like what? Something to drive the user toward what it wants to do?
- pjc50 2y ago> An UI like what? Something to drive the user toward what it wants to do? People don't have the goal "run ffmpeg", they have a goal like "transcode and host videos". See eg. mux.com on here recently. > cost-plus This is an extremely non-startup pricing model.
- siscia 2y agoThanks! I am looking explicitly for people who want to "run ffmpeg" I don't have the skills, nor the capital, to build a solution for the whole market of people that want to mess with videos. Just for reference Mix raised 177M since 2016. The goal is not to run a startup, but a small business with recurrent business. Of course there are a lot of way to approach this. One would be an API sold at cost plus (which is the closest to my skillset.) Building on top of that would be trivial for more pay-for-value product.