A developer friend asked me about the challenges of adding a watermark to a video. In the past, I’ve done similar things using video editing tools. However, they asked; was possible to add a watermark during an upload process, but it would need to be done with many videos and have logos and text information overlayed on the video. I wasn’t sure of any tool(s) but heard via another friend that AWS has transcoding tools and might have these capabilities. To add watermarks and text via the upload process, you need to use AWS Elastic Transcoder command-line tools (here) and...
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Ansible – Installing package on AWS EC2 Instance (ec2_instance_info)
This playbook is scripted to connect to EC2 instance via tags, then install the system package(s). The example below shows how to install Git, however, this can be any package. Order of things: You will obviously need to change the playbook values below in the script to match your AWS information. The values that need to be changed are highlighted in purple. Enjoy! Order of things:1. Get the ec2_instance_info,2. connect via ssh into the instance, and3. install git (could be any package).
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