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Dev.to · Mason K
16h ago
Playing HLS through Managed Media Source on iPhone with hls.js
TL;DR iPhone Safari never supported Media Source Extensions, so JS-driven players fell...
Dev.to · Mason K
16h ago
Force keyframe-aligned GOPs across an ABR ladder with FFmpeg
TL;DR If your stream hitches on quality switches but shows zero rebuffering, your ABR...
Dev.to · Mason K
16h ago
Build resumable video uploads with tus, Node, and tus-js-client
TL;DR A single multipart POST throws away the whole upload when the connection blinks....
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
23h ago
Ship multi-language audio in HLS: author the manifest, wire the hls.js switcher
📦 Code: github.com/USER/hls-multi-audio - replace before publishing TL;DR We'll add a...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
23h ago
Benchmark NVENC vs CPU transcoding (and find your real break-even) with FFmpeg
📦 Code: github.com/USER/nvenc-vs-cpu-bench - replace before publishing TL;DR A GPU...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
23h ago
5 video APIs compared on what's included before you pay extra (2026)
📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-api-bench - replace before publishing TL;DR The per-minute...
Dev.to · Mason K
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
⚡ AI Lesson
23h ago
Build a UGC video moderation pipeline with FFmpeg + NudeNet
TL;DR If your product lets strangers upload video, you need moderation before launch, not...
Dev.to · Mason K
⚡ AI Lesson
23h ago
FFmpeg HDR to SDR tone mapping that doesn't look washed out (2026)
TL;DR Converting HDR10 to SDR with a naive FFmpeg command gives you grey, washed-out...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
23h ago
Media over QUIC in 2026: a hands-on intro for web devs
TL;DR Media over QUIC (MoQ) is an IETF pub/sub transport for live media running over QUIC...
Dev.to · Mason K
3w ago
Turn on CMCD: make your CDN logs explain rebuffering
TL;DR CMCD (Common Media Client Data, CTA-5004) lets your player attach its state (buffer...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Build scrub-bar thumbnail previews with FFmpeg and a WebVTT sprite
TL;DR We're going to add hover-preview thumbnails (the little image that follows your...
Dev.to · Mason K
3w ago
Replacing a 5-service AWS video pipeline with one API call
TL;DR We had a video feature built on S3 + MediaConvert + CloudFront + a hand-rolled...
Dev.to · Mason K
3w ago
Build a video webhook handler that survives duplicates (Express + Postgres)
📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-webhook-receiver (replace before publishing) TL;DR We build...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Build a custom HLS player in React with hls.js (no wrapper libraries)
TL;DR We'll build a custom HLS player on top of hls.js 1.6.x and React 19 with no wrapper...
Dev.to · Mason K
🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Pick a better video thumbnail automatically with FFmpeg, PySceneDetect, and CLIP
TL;DR We'll build a pipeline that takes any video file, extracts candidate frames with...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Build a video upload + HLS playback flow in Next.js 15 (with direct uploads)
TL;DR We're going to build a "user uploads a video, user watches the video" feature in a...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Building a shot-detection worker for an upload pipeline with PySceneDetect 0.7
📦 Code: github.com/USER/shot-detection-worker (replace before publishing) TL;DR We are...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Wiring VMAF (and PSNR) into your encoder CI with FFmpeg 8.1 and ffmpeg-quality-metrics
📦 Code: github.com/USER/encoder-qa-ci (replace before publishing) TL;DR We are going to...
Dev.to · Mason K
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Shipping WebVTT subtitles in HLS that actually stay in sync (a hands-on guide for 2026)
📦 Code: github.com/USER/hls-webvtt-pipeline (replace before publishing) TL;DR We are...
Dev.to · Mason K
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Wiring up a hybrid WebRTC + LL-HLS live stack (the protocol decision tree that actually works)
TL;DR We're going to build a hybrid live stack: presenters connect over WebRTC for...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
Add real video QoE telemetry to your player in an afternoon
📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-qoe-starter — replace before publishing. TL;DR We'll...
Dev.to · Mason K
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Build a per-title bitrate ladder in 80 lines of FFmpeg + VMAF
📦 Code: github.com/USER/per-title-ladder — replace before publishing. TL;DR We'll take...
Dev.to · Mason K
1mo ago
I tested 5 managed video APIs back-to-back — here's the rig and what shipped
📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-api-bakeoff — replace before publishing. TL;DR Same source...
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