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Discussion on: Building a super cheap transcoder using AWS Lambda

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Sydney Schreckengost

If I missed anything, please do mention it so I can update it.

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Timothy McJak

New to Layers -- how do I import / reference the ffmpeg layer from within Lambda?

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Sydney Schreckengost

Ah! My apologies - from within the function page, under "Designer", immediately under the function you should see a layers button. Everything you need is in there.

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Edithouse

Hey Harold, Thank you for your great instructions, does it mean that the Lambda limitation will unable to encode full length film? e.g. feature film of 1hour and 45mins or longer for example?

Thanks again!

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Sydney Schreckengost

Yeah, that's the big downside. It can't really do that. In fact, I found out that anything with loads of motion will break, because it only has so much room. But it's pretty good for the things we really need it for.