Building a Video Sharing Website (with Node.js, Docker and FFMPEG)

There are a lot of things that go into creating an online video sharing platform, but in this video I'll go over the most important part: transcoding video. FFMPEG is a powerful open-source program that makes video transcoding fairly easy.

0:00 Intro
0:43 Why Video Transcoding is Important
2:25 App Demo
2:51 Frontend Code Walkthrough
3:53 Backend Code Walkthrough
7:24 Installing FFMPEG
8:37 Scaling Up the App

[nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej]

i liked and subscribed. i think this is the first time i have done so when someone said that. this video was that helpful and clear.

[alexsov]

you solved my bug by this video. thank you!

[moccomocco]

Awesome. I was facing this same issue. The only better thing here is if you can show how you put this on a cloud platform.

[jorgezozaya]

Hey, hey, hey! great content here. Would it be possible to process just the blob without writing the video to the file system? thanks!

[Bahmanasheghii]

great, btw did you know that ffmpeg can be used in the browser via wasm?
I made a real time encoder/video player in the browser!

[jiachen]

thanks for sharing. have you tried to add chapters to the video with map_metadata?

[UbaidHussain-xu]

Please share your github repo for the project.

[muhammedladeed]

how to convert mp4 into hls using ffmpeg?

[realdevdiv]

Is there a way to transcode without uploading it locally, like S3