Lorem.video
placeholder videos generated from URLs
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At work I have to deal with videos in different resolutions. We're also switching from H.264 to AV1, so I needed a quick way to test our video pipeline with different formats and sizes.I created lorem.video - a service that generates placeholder videos directly from the URL. For example: https://lorem.video/1280x720_h264_20s_30fpsYou control everything via the URL path: resolution, duration, codec (h264/h265/av1/vp9), bitrate, and fps. Videos are cached after first generation, so subsequent requests are instant.Built it in Go using FFmpeg for encoding. Generation runs in a nice'd process so it doesn't interfere with serving cached videos. Running on a cheap VPS.MIT licensed, source on GitHub: https://github.com/guntisdev/lorem-video
HN · launched Feb 11, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 2 views
Niche: video production and processing tools · 243 launches, 40 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The service parses video parameters from URL paths, executes standard FFmpeg generation commands, and serves cached video files from object storage.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #193 of 208 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 105 days after the earliest competitor.
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