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
Most TypeScript teams shopping for an agent framework don't need one. A single generateObject call covers classification, extraction, summarization, tagging — the 80% case for production LLM work in TS right now. But once the model starts deciding what to do next, surviving deploys, or coordinating with other agents, you start shopping. And the moment you do, you discover the TS agent ecosystem is
All frameworks are eventually replaced. React is probably the first that won’t be. It's not the best language out there, it's not the language developers love the most, it's the language the robots just won't quit. Request ChatGPT to develop a todo app for you. You'll receive React. Request Copilot to generate the basic structure of a component. React. Request Claude to design a prototype for a da
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