Does know any python video editing/processing libraries or frameworks that work with Google App Engine? I need to pro grammatically edit video files (adding a soundtrack, layering video clips on top etc.) on my App Engine site.
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any update on this? did you end of using GAE or have success with AWS? – clifgray Jul 22 '13 at 06:20
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With most video/audio codecs written in C for maximum portability, and any muxing libraries being written in C for speed working with large byte streams, finding these features in pure python libraries is going to be difficult.
If you could tie yourself down to just a single codec/container format you could probably port something to pure python but you're in for a long slog if you want to build something as diverse as ffmpeg in pure python.
I would not recommend this sort of task for AppEngine, even with backends, I think you would be severally limiting yourself by forcing this on AppEninge as well as making your task much harder than it would be if you looked at alternative solutions.
I would get myself a VPS or EC2 instance, build a little webservice around ffmpeg and send tasks to it from my main AppEngine application.
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How difficult will it be to build a webservice like that with EC2? Because I think that's definitely something I'm going to need help with. – zakdances Jul 29 '11 at 22:12
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@yourfriendzak If you run into problems, you can post specific questions here on SO, and we the community will lend you a hand! – Nick Johnson Aug 01 '11 at 03:54