Meicut Engineering #1: Video Compression at Product Scale

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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. The first architectural decision is the execution environment.

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