Distributed ffmpeg

I'm in a process of giving form to a very old dream of mine - to create an efficient and cheap video encoding platform.

And following the great examples such as SETI@home, BitTorrent and BitCoin, it's gotta be a distributed one :)

If anyone has some thoughts on my current concept, I would be glad to receive them.

This is my toolset I chose for the task:

• Vagrant for the virtual box that will contain the whole thing


• ffmpeg for video conversions


• Transmission BitTorrent client to transfer splitted video files (partials) for distributed conversion


• bittorrent-dht for getting peers and their IP addresses in file transfers and to determine full nodes to connect to (with open ports) in order to join the actual distributed network


• Hazelcast in-memory data grid to manage messaging between nodes


• RHash to calculate and verify Magnet links


• PeerGuardian for general protection from government spies and manual blacklisting of malicious nodes


• Apache and PHP to create front-end interface used to actually manage the workflow

A flowchart of how this all could work can be found here (careful, it's a bit scary :P): http://bit.ly/1sgbdb6

The actual project repo is here: http://bit.ly/1g9XRxl

Wish me luck and again, thanks for any comments, questions etc. :)

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