Is there a Vert for html to PDF?
Pandoc https://pandoc.org/
Open source and self hostable/private file converter
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Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#22It's ffmpeg all the way down. I can't imagine what the internet would be if there weren't such a marvelous piece of software.
It just needs pandoc to do document conversions and we are golden
Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#23How is this different from image/graphics magick, ffmpeg, oiiotool etc? Or: what am I missing here, why is this on the front page?
As far as I can tell, what you're missing is the massive ease-of-use and approachability, especially for non-technical users, of a web-based graphical "convert X to Y" interface vs. facing command line ffmpeg, which they probably haven't heard of.
There are already GUIs for ffmeg and most image editing applications can save in multiple formats so its still not clear to me what this adds
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#24Why do such things need to be hosted at all? I've got a few file converter apps on my laptop. They're faster and better and you don't need to stream the data off somewhere just to process and stream back, which is silly.
A relevant audience are the corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally... They are happy to find utilities wrapped behind some web front.
There are already lots of online convertors. This is FOSS and a bit more trustworthy but very few people in corporate environments will care about that
Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#25It's cool the source code really is open and available: https://github.com/VERT-sh/VERT AGPL licensed, which seems perfect for this kind of product: The AGPL (Affero General Public License) is a type of free software license developed by the Free Software Foundation. It is similar to the GPL (General Public License) but with one key difference: Network Use Clause: If you modify AGPL-licensed software and use it over…
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Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#26Tried a video, got "invalid digit found in string". I will stick with ffmpeg on termux I guess.
Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#27How is this different from image/graphics magick, ffmpeg, oiiotool etc? Or: what am I missing here, why is this on the front page?
As far as I can tell, what you're missing is the massive ease-of-use and approachability, especially for non-technical users, of a web-based graphical "convert X to Y" interface vs. facing command line ffmpeg, which they probably haven't heard of.
All of that. A couple more thoughts. As a project it brings together
energy to a task/configuration: namely that of making sure all those
disparate command-line tools or bits of lib code are brought together
for the specific purpose of serving file translations from some spot
in a transactional fashion. So that's some value.
Why on the front page? That question might also have a non-technical answer. What's going on in news and events? Who's been setting up file translators and then "Dude I have over 4,000 soundfiles, pictures, address-books..." ... "Whoah? Like. howdy manage that one?" ... "People just submitted it. Zuck fucks"
Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#28Why do such things need to be hosted at all? I've got a few file converter apps on my laptop. They're faster and better and you don't need to stream the data off somewhere just to process and stream back, which is silly.
I run a selection of things like this on my home network for my wife to use. It's handy to have their just be tools living on the network to use, particularly if you're setting up a new machine or using a work laptop off the guest network or the like.
Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#29It's a great UI to ffmpeg - I wish they gave it some credit on their landing page.
Re: Open source and self hostable/private file converter
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I can tell, what you're missing is the massive ease-of-use and approachability, especially for non-technical users, of a web-based graphical "convert X to Y" interface vs. facing command line ffmpeg, which they probably haven't heard of.
There are already GUIs for ffmeg and most image editing applications can save in multiple formats so its still not clear to me what this adds
It's not clear to me why that's a problem?