Bitrate Optimization using Spark and FFmpeg

Check out this part 1 notebook and this part 2 notebook and part 3 notebook which accompany this post! Streaming video is quickly occupying the lion’s share of digital content consumed by users of many applications. At the same time more users are streaming from mobile devices, screen sizes are also increasing while consumers expect high-quality video without lag or distortion artifacts. This frames an engineering challenge to optimize the way video is streamed for consumers across a multitude of hardware platforms....

 · 5 min · Terry Rodriguez & Salma Mayorquin