Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd April 2007 - Link Blog

Mass Video Conversion Using AWS. How to use S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python to bulk convert videos with Amazon Web Services.

Posted 3rd April 2007 at 11:44 pm

Recent articles

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face - 7th August 2026
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 - 5th August 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd April 2007.

amazon 69 aws 73 ec2 44 ffmpeg 6 python 1,274 s3 64 sqs 3

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe