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🎥 Stop Stressing Over User-Uploaded Videos: A Serverless Guide to AWS MediaConvert & Lambda

If you’ve ever built a feature allowing users to upload videos, you know the struggle. You get a 4GB .mov file from an iPhone, a weirdly encoded .webm from a desktop, and somehow you need to make them all play smoothly on a 3G connection in a subway tunnel.

You don't want to manage a fleet of FFMPEG servers. You just want the video to work.

I recently wrote a comprehensive guide on my personal blog about solving exactly this problem using a fully serverless architecture on AWS.

In the full article, I dive deep into building an automated pipeline that handles raw uploads and turns them into professional streaming formats without you needing to lift a finger.

What’s covered in the full guide:

What is AWS MediaConvert? Understanding "FFMPEG as a Service" and why it's better than rolling your own servers.

Cooking up HLS (The ".ts" Files): A step-by-step walkthrough of the AWS console to generate professional HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) playlists and segments for adaptive bitrate streaming.

The Event-Driven Architecture: Why you should never make your API poll for job status.

Automation with EventBridge & Lambda: How to listen for the "Job Complete" signal and trigger a Lambda function.

Closing the Loop: Node.js code examples for notifying your backend API via webhook or alerting admins via email once the video is ready.

If you are looking to build a robust, scalable video processing workflow that scales to zero when idle, check out the step-by-step tutorial.

👉 Read the full article here on my blog: https://blog.mtkits.com/2025/12/stop-worrying-about-video-formats.html

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