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From video API best practices to how to build your own streaming app, brush up on all things video with the articles below.

The Best Video APIs Right Now (2025)

The Best Video APIs Right Now (2025) Building your own video infrastructure is extraordinarily complex. You’d need to handle encoding across formats and renditions, put together a global CDN, manage s...

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Build AI Video Content Processing for Better Engagement and Product Experience

TL;DR AI-powered video processing transforms how users discover and interact with video content. Implement automated summarization, intelligent search, and contextual understanding to reduce drop-off ...

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Guidelines for Better Website Background Videos

Guidelines for Better Website Background Videos TL;DR Maximize compatibility with your visitor’s devices. Design around low maximum bandwidth to ensure fast page loads and a smooth experience. Use MP...

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Compress video files with ffmpeg

Learn how to compress video files with ffmpeg while maintaining qualityom

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How to get started in ffmpeg

Learn how to get started with FFmpeg and how to record, convert, stream, and play multimedia files.

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Extracting subtitles and captions from video files with FFmpeg

Learn how to extract subtitles and captions with FFmpeg into different formats like SRT and WebVTT

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How to Create WebM videos with FFmpeg

Learn how to create WebM video files with FFmpeg using the VP8, VP9 and AV1 codecs.

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HLS Tags - Everything you need to know

Learn all about the HLS format and what all of those #EXT tags really mean in your M3U8 file

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Convert video to different resolutions with FFmpeg

Learn how to convert videos to various resolutions using FFmpeg for bandwidth optimization and video quality improvements.

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Change video bitrate with FFmpeg

Learn how to adjust bitrates using FFmpeg's different options to optimise video for storage, streaming or any other purpose

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Optimize video for web playback with FFmpeg

Learn how to compress and optimize videos for smooth web playback using FFmpeg's powerful encoding and filtering capabilities

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Create a video slideshow with images using FFmpeg

Learn how to create engaging video slideshows from still images using FFmpeg's powerful image sequencing and transition capabilities

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