[xiaoyu2006]

It'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.

[starkparker]

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 than native ffmpeg and bound to WASM limits like file size (still a generous 2GB for images and audio, but not as viable for big video conversions).

Still weird that this project doesn't seem to acknowledge that anywhere.

[TheSmiddy]

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.

[igtztorrero]

That's a whole true, creator Mr Fabrice Bellard, a 1000x developer, also create Qemu, another essential gem of software.

[darknavi]

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/

[pestaa]

WHAT!? Unbelievable productivity. I'm in awe (and a renewed impostor syndrome).

[matheusmoreira]

https://www.bellard.org/

Reading that list of projects is quite humbling. I've always wanted to make stuff like that.

[thatcat]

Never heard of him, thanks for pointing this out.

[hypercube33]

It just needs pandoc to do document conversions and we are golden

[ukuina]

pandoc-wasm?

[sergiotapia]

It is one of the wonders of the world. Such a gift that we get to use it for free, from end users like us to large corporations like Netflix.

[metadat]

Actually, ffmpeg exists thanks to the legendary Fabrice Bellard. He's the rarest kind of programmer, stunningly capable and on a totally different wavelength of existence in terms of breadth of achievements. He made ffmpeg, incepted QEMU, and is a mobile / cellular communications guru.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

[freeamz]

Kinda remind me of this:

https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/

and this one also outputs ffmpeg command as well.

[leptons]

I could tell from the list of file formats that it had to be a front-end for ffmpeg. Kind of disappointed, since I can already do that easily enough. What I was hoping for was a converter for 3D model formats, which is a real pain sometimes.