dustball

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I make things.
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Comment · 6 years ago
8mb.video is a service that compresses video, images and audio to just under Discord's 8MB upload limit.
Comment · 6 years ago
Possibly - whats your use case?
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to write all this great feedback.

I am very appreciative.

Photos: Yes I actually recently added support for photos. It just resizes them to 1080p resolution. So not very flexible but all software must start somewhere. Give it a shot? They tend to be around 0.1MB.

I bought the domain 8mb.app .. maybe should switch names since it does more then video?

What kind of watermark do you want to add? text? graphic?

What video resolution do you want? Right now it reduces video to 720p, or keeps it the same if already smaller.

> It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.

What do you mean?

> Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."

Yes! Good idea! Will do.

> Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".

That would make sense. I will consider it.

If you have more feedback, I'm listening because those were great points.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yes. That's their free limit. If you pay $5/mo you get 50MB and $10/month gets you 100MB uploads. All of which seem like low limits to me, shrug.
Comment · 6 years ago
The neat thing is that incoming bandwidth to AWS is free, so people upload 100's of megabytes and we only get billed for the 8MB we send back. (CPU time/cost to transcode is negligible).
Comment · 7 years ago
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/management/tour/ looks interesting but feels more like selling a book in a book store then selling my own API on my own domain.
Comment · 9 years ago
What problem are you trying to solve?

Let novice users (or even lazy pros) create a professional quality podcast without needing extra software or hosting.

Re: upload an audio file

Soundcloud built their business around doing just this, albeit for a different market. They do support Podcasts but you can tell from the interface it is meant for music primarily.

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