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Meicut Engineering #1: Video Compression at Product Scale
Published on October 6, 2026By DEV Community
Part of the Meicut Engineering series — how we build an in-browser media toolkit. The encoding command — ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 out.mp4 — is well documented. What is rarely discussed is the engineering that turns this single command into a service: where encoding runs, how long-running jobs behave, how concurrency is bounded, and how output is matched to the user's stated goal. This post covers those decisions. 1. Where encoding runs The first architectural decision is the executi
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