Yea obviously, more asking, is there a video transcoding (compressing files) thing in cloudflare
Yea obviously, more asking, is there a video transcoding (compressing files) thing in cloudflare
1No there isnt
Vor would I need to setup a worker to call a transcoding service
Valr appreciate it
1Good luck getting a Worker to do that in an economical way
Vyes
1I really want a transcode option for Workers
1top of my wishlist
Vunfortunately not
VI tried with ffmpeg.wasm
Vbut its so terribly slow
Vit was transcoding at 200kb/s
1That would have been my suggestion lol
Vwhich even for a 20mb file it took minutes
1as in ffmpeg.wasm running in browser or in worker?
Vbrowser of the user
1delivering video is so cooked
Vyea
Vi could obviously build an instance that I call that transcodes
Vbut scalability and managment would be terrible
1Yeah for your use case you might be better off with some sort of intermediate server that can handle transcode
1Depending on the business case and plan for revenue making
VI did look into AWS, Azure and GC with their on the fly transcoding but their storage egress would kill me with an editor
1But doing video transcode in Workers is not economical in Workers rn, hence why Stream exists
1yeah thats the big CF draw, no egress
VAlso when I looked into the CF pricing, it does say no egress, but cost for infrequent storage may apply?
Vbut it never says what that actually looks like
1Yeah basically dont use the IA tier in R2
1Infrequent Access
Vmhh kk
1Its the only time you pay for egress with CF (besides Argo but thats not relevant)
Valr appreciate my friends
Vthis was super helpful
Vany ideas on how I could efficently manage this with R2 and getting transcoded videos? i.e. you know of any reliable transcoding service?
1honestly CF Stream has been just about the cheapest video transcode service I have found, unless you have hundreds of dev hours to dedicate to building backend infra yourself
1Like you could upload to Stream then request HLS manifests in lower bitrates or something
VAlright yea, though I forgot to mention, I do want to limit the preview quality, obviously. Which I dont think stream allows right? It just chooses itself
Vand CF Stream would also not allow for retrieving the OG HQ file right?
1you can get MP4 download of a video
1but you pay for the minutes
Vyea, might need to stick to R2 and see if I can find some good transcoding service
Vleveraging that free egress would be key
1Stream will give you different resolutions but not diff bitrates for same resolution
Vcan I manually specify in my req which resolution I want?
1Im pretty sure but Im not super versed on HLS manifests
Vyea alright
VAgain, appreciate it a lot!
1trying to find some relevant documentation
