Open source and self hostable/private file converter

Post by thi2 » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 3:53 PM UTC

haswell wrote: post #15

With the recent findings [0] that some of the “free file converter” websites in the wild were actually injecting malware into the results as the first stage of various attacks, I’ve wanted to stand something like this up on a server for my family. This looks like exactly what I’ve been looking for. - [0] https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver/news/fbi...

Post by starkparker » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 3:57 PM UTC

maxloh wrote: post #42

Maybe we could compile ffmpeg to WebAssembly and handle video conversion offline too?

    import { FFmpeg } from "@ffmpeg/ffmpeg";

Post by maxloh » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

starkparker wrote: post #43

maxloh wrote: post #42

Maybe we could compile ffmpeg to WebAssembly and handle video conversion offline too?

That's exactly what this does: https://github.com/VERT-sh/VERT/blob/2c8cb1922cf611489022645... import { FFmpeg } from "@ffmpeg/ffmpeg"; `@ffmpeg/ffmpeg` is https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app . If you finessed that `supportedFormats` array to add video formats, this would probably just work.

Post by PeterStuer » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

api wrote: post #11

liotier wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A relevant audience are the corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally... They are happy to find utilities wrapped behind some web front.

Ahh good point. An often missed driver for the cloud-ification of everything is that it offers a way to escape corporate IT. Sending a 20mb file 2000 miles away to do something trivial to it and send it back is easier than getting permission to install an app.

Post by imoreno » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

api wrote: post #5

Why 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.