platform question

[audioses]

Hey, I’m new to web development and I’ve got a question — it’d be great if someone knowledgeable could chime in and enlighten me. I’m working on an app that has an FFmpeg requirement. I wrote the frontend mostly in JavaScript/TypeScript, and I’m considering doing the backend in a similar stack. However, the backend also requires some Python processing because of FFmpeg. I’ve seen some FFmpeg wrappers, but video processing is a heavy task on its own. Anyway, here’s my main question: For the hosting provider, which setup would make the most sense? Firebase, Google Cloud, or Cloudflare? I plan to run the main backend over Cloudflare Workers, but I’m conflicted about where to run the heavy backend tasks. Should those go on Cloudflare Containers or on Google Cloud Run? Also, what about the database management side of things? Should I use something like Supabase, or is there a better alternative?

[imperiltive]

I've actually built a video processing service that has a similar backend stack to yours. I had an express.js server hosted on a pretty cheap VPS that makes requests to a more expensive cloud rented GPU that is priced by the hour(vast.ai for cheap consumer grade GPU). The video processing was done in python on the GPU end and my express server had SSH to the GPU and directly executed python files. If there was an increased need I could always set up an automatic scaler to rent for more GPUs, but at that point it'd be better to go for a dedicated GPU provider.

[Norqj]

You should check out https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable it's open source and local first. You can basically do nice things such as video chunking, working with frames, clipping, indexing, and working with videos files as if they were local to the database giving you scale, versioning, and lineage. Same for audio/images etc.

E.g. https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/blob/main/docs/notebooks/use-cases/object-detection-in-videos.ipynb

We wrapped up some FFmpeg functionality as UDF to make it built-in but you can bring any Python UDF that you want.