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Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

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Re: Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

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It is not OSI® Open Source Definition™ approved, but it is open source for the common use of the term.

I don't say it to be pedantic about the term, but there are hard restrictions on usage of this tool in commercial environments.. So it's important people are aware and don't just assume it's an open source.

Right. OSI tried to use their authority to make it seem like AWS's strip mining of the open source ecosystem was the moral high ground. HN has a lot of wishful commercial operators who side with AWS. So they use "open source" lower case as a weapon to harass the open source developers. Personally I tend to side with the developers who try to figure out a way to keep their projects viable.

Re: Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

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post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not OSI® Open Source Definition™ approved, but it is open source for the common use of the term.

The accepted term is "source available". Restrictions on usage type are not commonly accepted as open source by any community that I'm aware of.

That is according to OSI. OSI does not get to dictate the english language.

Re: Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

#134

> Browser not fully supported > This editor relies on WebGPU for rendering, which currently works best in Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers. You may experience issues in your current browser. (reminds of works in IE6)

https://caniuse.com/webgpu

Missing support in Firefox on Linux and Android, otherwise seems to be pretty well supported in recent browsers.

Re: Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

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It’s not nitpicking, the term “open source” is not usually used for this kind of thing, it would be called “shared source” I did a poll on this on a Discord server a while ago What does open source mean You can view the source code: 0 votes View + use + redistribute for any purpose: 14 votes So no, your version of it is not the common usage

Was that the OSI discord server? ;) 14 votes in a specific bubble isn't all that representative either.

It's calculator programming related so I'd say not biased in any particular way other than having a lot of hobbyist techy people

Re: Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

#138

Isn't the wasm ffmpeg still waaay more slower through the browser, since a lot of the optimizations are not available?!

Has been my experience. Like, orders of magnitude slower.

For flipping around a few seconds of video it's ok - but it's only processing (on my machine) like 2fps.

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