Hey James,

External video processing is not cheap either and if you look at the pricing for Zencoder for instance, https://zencoder.com/en/file-transcoding/pricing , the lowest slab would cost you $40 / month. If you do the math yourself, booting up a cloud instance and having ffmpeg installed would be much more affordable in the long run, https://www.linode.com/pricing

I think the biggest issue we will face with native videos is speed. I'm not doubting EasySocial, I am however thinking that getting the right server software and RAM will be a bit trickier to come by if you want to do better than news sites that play videos.

Yes, external video processors would definitely be much faster since their job is purely to encode videos I also believe they have a more optimized encoder rather than relying on ffmpeg.

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I've been looking at possibilities where we could either:

1. Build our own ffmpeg encoding service (With some charges applied monthly)

2. Zencoder (Pricey!)

3. Heywatch Encoding (Relatively cheaper than zencoder)

What are your thoughts?

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Mark,

I would be really interested in a service like this. I am happy with Siteground's hosting and would hate to leave them because I need to install FFMepg on my hosting plan. If you Stackideas created a service, I would definitely use it.

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

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Haha, nice name :P If we were to start a service like this, we need to factor in a lot of cost because we need to get a dedicated machine and to be honest, I am not really sure how much would that even cost :x

Will check out some of these video encoding providers

also could be a great revenue stream, the official encode for Joomla users!! ??

alot of CB, JomSoc, HWD Video and like others sure would be gravitated towards such a trusted service. and as such, towards your other product offerings.

If marketed properly!! you guys would be rolling in the cash!! new Ferrari ???

TMW

Haha, if only there is such a market demand, it would make sense but I will try to take a look at the costings

Love the EasyEncode idea.

I have a nice dedicated server running CloudLinux and unfortunately the safest ffmpeg version installed is not compatible with EasySocial. This is sad...

Hey Roberto,

If you can setup an account for me on your dedicated machine, I could try to add a compatibility layer for that particular version. Which version do you use?

Hi Mark, thanks again for your time and attention.

Version is 2.2.1-65.

I added the credentials under site details.

I am getting this error when I try to ssh to the server:

Unauthorized access is not allowed and all violators will be reported to the proper authorities.
All connections are recorded and the administrators have been notified.
Shell access is not enabled on your account!
If you need shell access please contact support.

I know this post is a few months old, but I was wondering if anybody is using or found an external ffmpeg hosting provider to transcode videos that are uploaded to EasySocial. I am stuck with having my users use Youtube because my hosting provider will not allow me to run ffmpeg on their server.

Hey Aaron,

I would strongly suggest to consider switching to a different hosting provider You could try Cloud Access or Inmotion hosting from http://stackideas.com/partners as I believe they do support ffmpeg out of the box