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Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers by toomuchtodo on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:45PM (#47327931)
Very cool. Peertube supports remote runners [1] [2], might take a look for inspiration. As a distributed compute enthusiast, big fan of of this model for media processing.

[1] https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/tools#peertube-runner

[2] https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/remote-runners

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Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers by steelbrain on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:54PM (#47328010)
Very cool! Thank you for sharing! I didn't know this existed, so now I'm curious how they solved it :)

My usecase is just-in-time media transcoding, I'll see if PeerTube remote runners support it

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Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers by utopiah on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:33AM (#47335358)
Roughly what you'd expect https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/architecture#remote... basically a request queue that gets periodically queried by trusted runners, fulfilled, updated.
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Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers by bastiao on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:02PM (#47329336)
Very nice. Could this concept be applied to have ffmpeg running in webassembly, and over HTTP?
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Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers by toomuchtodo on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:06PM (#47329372)
Similar to https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm ?
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Re:FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers by bastiao on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:16PM (#47329474)
Exactly - but can transcoding be remote?
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