Hi Aaron,

I am sorry but there is no alternative for video processing in easysocial other than ffmpeg currently.

Hi Araon

If you have not seen this maybe you should check it out:

http://stackideas.com/forums/external-ffmpeg-hosting

I am also at Siteground and there is no way that I can take that financial jump you mention above!

best

Paul

@Paul - Thanks for the heads up on this post. I actually commented on this post and after some research this is what I discovered.

I was searching for transcoding services and stumbled upon https://transloadit.com. Their pricing looks reasonable for 7GB of transcoding per month at $19/month. This is their explanation on how they track usage:

Say you convert a 0.8MB image and the resulting image is 0.2MB - that is 1MB together. Doing this 1024 times means you used 1GB.
They also have a trial version which gives you 2GB of transcoding for free.

Another service that looks promising is Amazon Elastic Transcoder (https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/). What I like about Amazon's pricing model is that it is pay as you go.

A 10 minute source file in US West (Oregon) transcoded to an SD output will cost 10 x $0.015 = $0.15.
A 10 minute source file in US East (N. Virginia) transcoded to an HD output will cost 10 x $0.030 = $0.30.

I also found a project on GitHub: https://github.com/sportarchive/CloudTranscode

I am hoping Stackideas finds a solution. After talking to some of my user I do not think I will be getting a lot of video posts because they would first have to create an account with Youtube, upload their video, and then get the link to post it on our website. I do not think people are going to take the time to do this or even know how to do this, so right now videos on our site will not be used a lot.

Hi Araon

Ah yes. the worked is small. So you already posted in that thread I mentioned.

As I mentioned before my case is probably pretty specific as I am dealing with people who at least should be pretty video literate.

I wish you luck and if you find out any other solutions do feel free to post

Will do likewise if/when I find something.

best

Paul

Hey guys,

Thanks for sharing this. Appreciate this very much. I will look into this

I am also trying to strike a deal with the guys at inmotion hosting to see if they are able to provide a service for this.