once we fix caching and improve the nginx locations I'll make sure to release under github.com/nytimes but you'll see that there's no much going on over there, just some config files and the lua app. :)
If you look at the thumbnails extractor, it calls libav methods that are essentially the core of ffmpeg. One of goal of this service is so journalists and editors can easily play and create thumbnails without command lines and terminals :)
hey! VHS is actually a tribute to the old "Video Home System" :) We also name our releases with 80s movies, here are some examples of the latest versions:
- 2.63.0 Coming to America
- 2.60.0 The Terminator
- 2.59.0 Full Metal Jacket
On the beginning of this year we decided to transcode our old videos to have mp4/webm/hls renditions (we only had .flv at that time) so we could also generate the thumbs. For new videos I created this project https://github.com/flavioribeiro/video-thumbnail-generator and we are integrating it with our encoding pipeline.