Interesting approach—privacy-friendly editing without uploads is compelling. Curious how you handle performance and large files purely in-browser, and what trade-offs there are vs server-based editors.
Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
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Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#12> FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly handles final encode FFmpeg's license is the LGPL 2.1. VidStudio looks like closed source software, I couldn't see any indication that it's free software. You're distributing this software to run in the client's browser. I'm not a lawyer but I think you're in breach of the terms of the LGPL. https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Thank you for pointing this out, to be completely honest, I did not consider licensing because the website started as a collection of tools I built to run locally and get into video/audio codecs then I realised it is already a decent collection of tools that other people might want to use too.
But I will be making the needed changes to comply fully tonight.
At least I comply with this:
`Do not misspell FFmpeg (two capitals F and lowercase "mpeg")`
I realised I have some more reading to do regarding GPL vs LGPL because of the wasm project.
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#13> FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly handles final encode FFmpeg's license is the LGPL 2.1. VidStudio looks like closed source software, I couldn't see any indication that it's free software. You're distributing this software to run in the client's browser. I'm not a lawyer but I think you're in breach of the terms of the LGPL. https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Thank you for pointing this out, to be completely honest, I did not consider licensing because the website started as a collection of tools I built to run locally and get into video/audio codecs then I realised it is already a decent collection of tools that other people might want to use too. But I will be making the needed changes to comply fully tonight. At least I comply with this: `Do not misspell FFmpeg (two ca…
Any reason not to just open source it? Personally I'd love to hack on it :-) IANAL, but IMHO AGPL would be a good fit here as it complies with LGPL and also ensures nobody besides you (the copyright holder) can stand it up for profit without contributing back).
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#14You probably already know this, but I could not import 10-bit video on Windows which I think would be fairly common among the target audience. ffmpeg supports decoding 10-bit video.
Thank you for flagging this, indeed you are right. I do have a long list of problems to go through. The editor mostly relies on the browser Audio/Video codecs which I learned after trying FFmpeg out. They have wide support but also a bunch of limitations. Actively working on it, thank you for the feedback. It is the first time I take such a deep dive to all of these.
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#15Let me just say the performance is absolutely incredible, and the persistence is so transparent. I actually was given access to an in-browser video editor that chokes pretty quickly so I'm impressed. The tracks didn't seem to work well for me. I'm on Firefox on Windows and couldn't drag and drop tracks to change the order, there doesn't seem to be any layer transformation tools (position, rotation, scale) that I could find to counteract it not handling footage of different aspect ratios (I.E. portrait and landscape).
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for pointing this out, to be completely honest, I did not consider licensing because the website started as a collection of tools I built to run locally and get into video/audio codecs then I realised it is already a decent collection of tools that other people might want to use too. But I will be making the needed changes to comply fully tonight. At least I comply with this: `Do not misspell FFmpeg (two ca…
Any reason not to just open source it? Personally I'd love to hack on it :-) IANAL, but IMHO AGPL would be a good fit here as it complies with LGPL and also ensures nobody besides you (the copyright holder) can stand it up for profit without contributing back).
> Any reason not to just open source it?
Mmmm...potential commercialisation? Always find it curious that people expect to get source code for free in ways that they don't do for other work (ask George Martin to release his drafts and notes).
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#17Interesting approach—privacy-friendly editing without uploads is compelling. Curious how you handle performance and large files purely in-browser, and what trade-offs there are vs server-based editors.
get this twitter-style LLM reply guy spam off of HN
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#18How does it compare to https://omniclip.app/ , https://tooscut.app , or https://clipjs.mohy.dev/ ?
Also wondering how it compares to https://pikimov.com , another browser-based video editor I've seen making the rounds.
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
LGPL permits that. However, some popular codecs use GPL, which, if enabled, would require to distribute the rest of the code under it as well.
LGPL permits you to distribute binaries, but you can't distribute the software as an opaque binary blob with no reasonable way to modify it. What even is the equivalent of a shared library that a user can replace when software runs in the browser? Anyway, OP doesn't do most of the things FFmpeg lists under their "License Compliance Checklist".
> Anyway, OP doesn't do most of the things FFmpeg lists under their "License Compliance Checklist".
Legitimately asking, which points and how are they expected to handle it for this type of app (assuming they want to keep it closed source)? As far as I understand it they just need to credit the libraries?
Re: Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any reason not to just open source it? Personally I'd love to hack on it :-) IANAL, but IMHO AGPL would be a good fit here as it complies with LGPL and also ensures nobody besides you (the copyright holder) can stand it up for profit without contributing back).
> Any reason not to just open source it? Mmmm...potential commercialisation? Always find it curious that people expect to get source code for free in ways that they don't do for other work (ask George Martin to release his drafts and notes).
> Mmmm...potential commercialisation?
Hence why I asked the question... And not everybody does everything for commercial reasons, so it would be dumb to assume that and therefore not ask the question.
> Always find it curious that people expect to get source code for free in ways that they don't do for other work (ask George Martin to release his drafts and notes).
Where in my question did you get that I expect to get source code for free in ways that I don't for other work?
But regardless, you do know that open source is a common thing right? People open source things all the time, especially on HN.
Also OP already says they don't do any uploading of your videos to the cloud, so this thing already runs local-only. It's not like there is a shortage of video editors around (including ... open source ... video editors)