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Honestly, I'm not sure why you need a web interface on top of ffmpeg. It just seems to be an easy avenue for malware.
My 70+ non technical parents are not going to have much success with ffmpeg.
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A relevant audience are the corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally... They are happy to find utilities wrapped behind some web front.
What a silly take. > Why do such things need to be hosted at all? because: corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic.
Are you unsatisfied with the myriad of Imagemagick, FFMPEG, sox or Ghostscript GUI front-ends ? What does a web deployment offer ? Even not taking privacy concerns in consideration, the local solution if better - I guess a one-off conversion might wish to eschew local installation, but such bread-and-butter operations are rarely one-off.
Or should we consider the market for a zip/7zip/rar/tar.gz file compression web front-end ?
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...
Honestly, I'm not sure why you need a web interface on top of ffmpeg. It just seems to be an easy avenue for malware.
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And TinyC, and the Bellard formula for calculating pi.
... and a fully working SDR implementation of the LTE phone standard. The dude can wrap his head around literally anything . Him and Torvalds are truly exceptionally capable people.
The things he built are:
ffmpeg, which basically implements a bunch of specs for codecs
Qemu, which basically implement a bunch of specs for CPUs
TinyC / QuickJS, which basically implement a bunch of specs, mainly those for C and JS.
That LTE thing, which, surprise surprise, implements a bunch of specs.
He seems to be a God of turning specs into working code, not necessarily a GOd of programming in general.
please add HEIC: the default file format from iPhones
https://github.com/kleisauke/wasm-vips/issues/3
It does support AVIF and JXL. Hopefully Apple will abandon HEIC hehe.
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Honestly, I'm not sure why you need a web interface on top of ffmpeg. It just seems to be an easy avenue for malware.
Nerds don't. Normal people do. Normal people also won't download and self-host some open source software just to convert one file...
I still use ChatGPT for the command lines regularly like - “ want to combine these two tracks into a single stereo track with A on left, and B on right” which is super helpful for putting stuff in an SPD.
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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.
It'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…
Would be even cooler if the website gave credit to what it is built on.
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... and a fully working SDR implementation of the LTE phone standard. The dude can wrap his head around literally anything . Him and Torvalds are truly exceptionally capable people.
Okay, here's a crazy idea. The things he built are: ffmpeg, which basically implements a bunch of specs for codecs Qemu, which basically implement a bunch of specs for CPUs TinyC / QuickJS, which basically implement a bunch of specs, mainly those for C and JS. That LTE thing, which, surprise surprise, implements a bunch of specs. He seems to be a God of turning specs into working code, not necessarily a GOd of progra…
This kind of mental flexibility is what I really admire.