Lorem.video
placeholder videos generated from URLs
Details
- External ID
- 46974006
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lorem.video
- Website domain
- lorem.video
- Launched
- Feb. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- placeholder video generation from urls
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
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