Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need video processing in your app. Converting formats, trimming clips, generating thumbnails, adding watermarks. Building this from scratch means installing FFmpeg on a server, managing queues, handling failures, and scaling infrastructure. Or you use an FFmpeg REST API and skip all of that. The problem: there are at least six services that claim to do this, and they work in fundamentally different ways. Some give you FFmpeg's full command-line power