Founder
Abdelrahman Essawy
Founder of Rendobar. Builds the media processing platform behind the FFmpeg, compose, captions, and generation APIs.
Posts
FFmpeg fits on Vercel. Size isn't the problem
Read the measured numbers behind FFmpeg on Vercel. The binary is 76 MB against a 250 MB cap, and the 4.5 MB body limit is what actually stops you.
Parsing ffprobe output is harder than it looks
Read a media file's metadata with ffprobe, then watch the traps: rotation, HDR, fake image durations, missing channel layouts, and cover art as video.
Best FFmpeg API in 2026, compared
Compare the best FFmpeg APIs for developers in 2026: Rendobar, Rendi, Transloadit, ffmpeg-api.com, and Shotstack, on price, raw commands, and MCP.
Why ffmpeg.wasm can't run in a Cloudflare Worker
Read why ffmpeg.wasm can't run in a standard Cloudflare Worker. workerd blocks runtime WASM compilation, and the 31 MB core barely survives gzip.
Everything shipped is dated in the changelog.