Open source and self hostable/private file converter

Post by xnx » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 1:51 PM UTC

TheSmiddy wrote: post #95

starkparker wrote: post #38

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I get to be one of the lucky few to learn today that ffmpeg was ported (well, transpiled) to WASM. This is more specifically built on that port: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm That project has an interactive playground that essentially describes and demonstrates how it works: https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app/playground This also means that despite being a locally hosted ffmpeg frontend, it's still slower tha…

they may have updated the website since the numerous comments here but the about section acknowledges all the libraries they use Libraries A big thanks to FFmpeg (audio, video), libvips (images) and Pandoc (documents) for maintaining such excellent libraries for so many years. VERT relies on them to provide you with your conversions.

Post by darknavi » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 3:24 PM UTC

LoganDark wrote: post #94

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It really is crazy how true the 1000x statement is. We use QuickJS (the JavaScript runtime he authored) in Minecraft (Bedrock) where even more developers use it to mod Minecraft. It's a huge pyramid of developers! Checking out Bellard's website is a great high level list of works: https://bellard.org/

i would hope that one day bedrock edition will support macos just like education edition does (which runs on the exact same engine), but i fear that microsoft might have bought mojang expressly to prevent that from happening

Post by oceanhaiyang » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 3:41 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 angra_mainyu » Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

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miki123211 wrote: post #104

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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…

Yup, but you need to involve yourself deep into quite the diverse range of programming, computer science, math and physics questions to be able to even read the specs, much less implement them. Codecs involve highly arcane math, an emulator not only needs to take care about the CPU but a whole bunch of side chips and associated timings, compilers are an entire field of academic study, and to work with LTE or anything…

Post by pbmahol » Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 7:28 AM UTC

genewitch wrote: post #101

haswell wrote: post #93

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My 70+ non technical parents are not going to have much success with ffmpeg.

While I have 68 fewer parents, minimum, than you, I also have technical issues with ffmpeg and I pitched a transcoding setup to a F50 company - so I've used it.