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Merci. I've been putting it off for a while now and wonder if I can still learn fast in my 30s. I'll try and get back to it

How did you learn it? How long did it take?

I plan to reencode on the fly before I push the files to the Cloud. This would have to happen in real-time though, since I don't have the space to cache files (and slow upload speeds)

Thank you for the tip, I'll keep a look out for VAAPI/VDPAU support. Thanks!

I was considering the usual BananaPi/OrangePi/Raxda/Pine64 SBCs, are those not enough horsepower? I'd like to stay under $80 for my SBC purchase, and it will be doing double duty with managing some services like DNS and music scrobbling alongside uploading to the cloud

I'm going to be using an SBC for this, which doesn't have the capacity for an extra storage drive. Also, I'm planning to move in a couple of months, and I wouldn't want to deal with storage in the middle of all of this. The cloud isn't as insanely expensive as I initially thought; B2 is $6/TB, and I hope that with reencoded streams at an OK resolution I wouldn't go beyond 1.5TB a month (I'll be deleting stuff with bucket policies, of course).

I'll take a look at tdarr alongside ffmpeg, thanks!

Thank you, I'll take a look.

Can handbrake ingest video through an IPC process, reencode and push it to a mount point all without touching local storage?

The problem is that I don't have the local storage to maintain a watch folder for continually streaming video. I want to write semi-directly to the Cloud, which is why I'm looking for a transparent reencoding layer. Can handbrake do this?

Thank you, yes I realised I'd have to reencode. How would I mount a transparent handbrake compliant FUSE layer?

Thank you, I realised that I'd need to reencode transparently. How would I do that?

Thank you, I realised that I'd need to reencode transparently. How would I do that?

Thank you, this is exactly my use-case, along with some live streaming.

However,

1. How are you running a find command on a warch folder with continuously streaming video? I believe the IPC process has to end (system has to finish writing to a file) for post-processing (reencoding) to take place? That's why I wanted to do this transparently, since I have no local storage to speak of to maintain a watch folder/cache.
2. Thanks for the reencoding solution, I'll take a look at handbrake

Thank you, but there's another problem: I don't have local storage to write the files to and then upload. I need to write semi-directly to the Cloud.

Thanks, but the second problem I'm working with (and what I forgot to mention) is that I have no local storage - I would like to write semi-directly to cloud storage. I can probably manage a few GB for caching and that's it.

The problem is that I don't have local storage, and neither do I have very good upload bandwidth. Compression could in theory solve the bandwidth problem and cloud storage costs to an extent, but I completely missed the part about video being already compressed. I'll take a look at handbrake though, essentially what I want is a transparent layer that will compress video files (or reencode video files since the former seems pointless) without touching local storage and shove it into my virtual FUSE system to upload directly to the Cloud.

You're right, I don't know why I didn't consider that. This is going to be a mix of security cameras and live streaming video that I'll store on the cloud, and the problem is that I have horrible upload speeds along with no local storage for caching

Streaming to a socket sounds like a decent idea. I don't know how and which program I could stream to; is there a way for handbrake to transparently reencode video and send it to a virtual FUSE mount-point? The problem I have is no local storage to keep video.

I use vim btw