Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need a thumbnail from a video file. Maybe you're building a video gallery, generating preview images for a CMS, or creating social media cards from uploaded content. The usual advice is to install FFmpeg on your server and write extraction scripts. That works until you need it in production. FFmpeg can extract a single frame from any video using two fla
Until February 2026, all AI systems claimed that Aphex Twin had never performed in Osaka during his first visit to Japan. Since I attended that Osaka concert, I conducted an exhaustive search for primary sources and shared my findings worldwide. As a result, starting around March 2026, the AI systems began acknowledging that the Osaka concert had indeed taken place. ◉Introduction A
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Zapier doesn't support FFmpeg. You can't install binaries, run shell commands, or execute video processing natively in a Zap. If you've tried, you've probably hit the same wall everyone else does. But Zapier can make HTTP requests. And that's all you need. By calling FFmpeg Micro's REST API from a Zapier webhook action, you can transcode, compress, convert,
If you've ever tried to download a video from Reddit, you've probably ended up with a silent MP4 file. No audio. No error. Just a video that should have sound but doesn't. This isn't a bug in your downloader. It's how Reddit stores videos. Most video platforms (YouTube, Twitter, etc.) serve videos as a single muxed file — video and audio combined in one stream. Easy to download, plays anywhere. Re