video-converter

Everything to massively convert videos using AWS EC2 spot instance

#Pre-requisites Your videos have to be on a EFS, in /input directory. Converted files will be put in /output directory, and old one will be moved to /done directory. I personally sync my videos from my Synology NAS to a S3 Bucket, and then do the sync to an EFS using AWS S3 CLI.

Terraform should be installed and your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY_ID properly set up.

#Usage

1. Create an EFS where you will store your videos to be converted in /input.
2. Replace in convert.bash the value of efs_mountpoint with something like 'fs-something.efs.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com'.
3. Launch convert.bash and at the end, launch manually the command asked by the script.
4. Don't forget to do a terraform destroy once you're done.

#Changing default configuration.

• EC2 instance type can be changed in ec2_host.tf. c5.24xlarge instance with spot pricing model fits well for large amount of files and 10 parallels threads. Smaller instance type will may require less threads, since one limitation could be the EFS throughput. Proposed configuration works well, though.
• Number of threads can be changed in convert.pl script.

#Why ca-central-1 ? ca-central-1 is around Montréal, QC, Canada, where electricity is exclusively hydro-electricity, which means clean & carbon-zero. Think about it.