FFmpeg 3.0 released
Thanks to all the FFmpeg contributors! Fantastic piece of software.<p>On a project I was recently on recently we started hitting the per-region concurrent transcode limits on Amazon's Elastic Transcoder. [1]<p>Instead of sharding over pipelines or accounts we set up a pipeline with FFMPEG + Lambda functions and it performed fantastically (within the free tier even).<p>It was incredibly simple to write the functions and has given that project a lot more freedom; with the caveat that the any single task you undertake should occur within the timeout window (currently 5 minutes). Having said that, it's also straight forward to split the process into steps and have multiple lambda jobs to make the flow more of a pipeline.<p>[1] <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/developerguide/limits.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/develope...</a>