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Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting
I am working on a website that has video hosting capability. Users can upload video files and i will generate multiple versions with different qualities or just audio, thumbnails and things like that.

I have chosen the mp4 container because of how widely supported it is. To prevent users having to fetch whole files, i use the fast start option, where the container’s metadata is written at the beginning of the file, instead of at the end.

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Ask HN: What are some good open-source projects (web apps) to contribute to?
I’m a bit stale in my programming languages (except vanilla JS as I’m leetcoding with it) and would like to make one of my languages and knowledge about web frameworks active again.

I’m not entirely sure how to look for good open-source projects to send pull requests to. Do you guys have any ideas?

I have some experience in:

\* Java + Spring Boot

\* C# + .Net

\* Typescript + Node

\* Python + Django

\* ReactJS

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Ask HN: Server-side HTML Templates based on DOM?
For side projects I’ve used BeautifulSoup in Python to break down HTML documents into the DOM, manipulate them at the DOM level, then serve them to a browser.

For instance the “main template” for a site could be an HTML page that has a

inside it which is a placeholder for the content. The content is itself an HTML page, and the of the content is inserted into the , also the metadata gets merged so the passes through.

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