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⚡ AI Lessons
Dev.to · Mason K
1w ago
Build a video watch-time heatmap: interval tracker, beacon endpoint, canvas render
TL;DR We're building the "which parts of this video do people actually watch" chart...
Dev.to · Mason K
1w ago
Turn on AV1 film grain synthesis and measure what it saves on your own footage
TL;DR Film grain is random, codecs can't predict randomness, so grainy sources cost a...
Dev.to · Mason K
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Build an AI dubbing pipeline: faster-whisper + XTTS-v2 + FFmpeg
TL;DR We're building a script that takes a video in English and produces the same video...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Probing FFmpeg's av1_vulkan encoder: does your GPU actually support it?
TL;DR FFmpeg 8.x includes av1_vulkan, the first cross-vendor GPU AV1 encoder in mainline...
Dev.to · Mason K
1w ago
Ship a 'Go Live' button: OBS in, LL-HLS out, webhooks in between
TL;DR We're adding live streaming to a SaaS dashboard: a backend endpoint that creates a...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Playing HLS through Managed Media Source on iPhone with hls.js
TL;DR iPhone Safari never supported Media Source Extensions, so JS-driven players fell...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Force keyframe-aligned GOPs across an ABR ladder with FFmpeg
TL;DR If your stream hitches on quality switches but shows zero rebuffering, your ABR...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Build resumable video uploads with tus, Node, and tus-js-client
TL;DR A single multipart POST throws away the whole upload when the connection blinks....
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Ship multi-language audio in HLS: author the manifest, wire the hls.js switcher
📦 Code: github.com/USER/hls-multi-audio - replace before publishing TL;DR We'll add a...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Benchmark NVENC vs CPU transcoding (and find your real break-even) with FFmpeg
📦 Code: github.com/USER/nvenc-vs-cpu-bench - replace before publishing TL;DR A GPU...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
5 video APIs compared on what's included before you pay extra (2026)
📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-api-bench - replace before publishing TL;DR The per-minute...
Dev.to · Mason K
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Build a UGC video moderation pipeline with FFmpeg + NudeNet
TL;DR If your product lets strangers upload video, you need moderation before launch, not...
Dev.to · Mason K
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
FFmpeg HDR to SDR tone mapping that doesn't look washed out (2026)
TL;DR Converting HDR10 to SDR with a naive FFmpeg command gives you grey, washed-out...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Media over QUIC in 2026: a hands-on intro for web devs
TL;DR Media over QUIC (MoQ) is an IETF pub/sub transport for live media running over QUIC...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Turn on CMCD: make your CDN logs explain rebuffering
TL;DR CMCD (Common Media Client Data, CTA-5004) lets your player attach its state (buffer...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Build scrub-bar thumbnail previews with FFmpeg and a WebVTT sprite
TL;DR We're going to add hover-preview thumbnails (the little image that follows your...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Replacing a 5-service AWS video pipeline with one API call
TL;DR We had a video feature built on S3 + MediaConvert + CloudFront + a hand-rolled...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Build a video webhook handler that survives duplicates (Express + Postgres)
📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-webhook-receiver (replace before publishing) TL;DR We build...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Build a custom HLS player in React with hls.js (no wrapper libraries)
TL;DR We'll build a custom HLS player on top of hls.js 1.6.x and React 19 with no wrapper...
Dev.to · Mason K
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Pick a better video thumbnail automatically with FFmpeg, PySceneDetect, and CLIP
TL;DR We'll build a pipeline that takes any video file, extracts candidate frames with...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Build a video upload + HLS playback flow in Next.js 15 (with direct uploads)
TL;DR We're going to build a "user uploads a video, user watches the video" feature in a...
Dev.to · Mason K
2mo ago
Building a shot-detection worker for an upload pipeline with PySceneDetect 0.7
📦 Code: github.com/USER/shot-detection-worker (replace before publishing) TL;DR We are...
Dev.to · Mason K
2mo ago
Wiring VMAF (and PSNR) into your encoder CI with FFmpeg 8.1 and ffmpeg-quality-metrics
📦 Code: github.com/USER/encoder-qa-ci (replace before publishing) TL;DR We are going to...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Shipping WebVTT subtitles in HLS that actually stay in sync (a hands-on guide for 2026)
📦 Code: github.com/USER/hls-webvtt-pipeline (replace before publishing) TL;DR We are...
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