Design a Video Transcoding Pipeline · System Design Interview

Design a Video Transcoding PipelineDesign the pipeline that turns one uploaded master file into every rendition the players ask for, across a fleet of machines.What it has to do

Produce every rendition, and the manifest listing them, from one source file

A machine dying part-way does not send the whole video back to the start

A caller can see how far a video has got, and why it failed

Scale

Videos submitted per day: 2 million

Renditions per video: 6

Out of scope

Playback and the CDN

The upload path itself

Thumbnails and captions

Rights management

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