Lorem.video – placeholder videos generated from URLs

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At work I have to deal with videos in different resolutions. We're also switching from H.264 to AV1, so I needed a quick way to test our video pipeline with different formats and sizes.I created lorem.video - a service that generates placeholder videos directly from the URL. For example: https://lorem.video/1280x720_h264_20s_30fpsYou control everything via the URL path: resolution, duration, codec (h264/h265/av1/vp9), bitrate, and fps. Videos are cached after first generation, so subsequent requests are instant.Built it in Go using FFmpeg for encoding. Generation runs in a nice'd process so it doesn't interfere with serving cached videos. Running on a cheap VPS.MIT licensed, source on GitHub

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