I’ve developed a distributed ffmpeg google app engine solution. The solution uses a combination of publish subscribe and redis queues for distributed communication. https://github.com/dmzoneill/appengine-ffmpeg Its composed of 2 services which scale horizontally (default and worker). Coordinator (default service and human interface) [crayon-59fed3029e448600577277/] Worker [crayon-59fed3029e457376379800/]