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10 months ago | about 19 hours ago | |
TypeScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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orbital
- orbital - Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
I tried to make 2 different desktop apps in 2021 and failed at both.
Atomic Edits[0] is a desktop app that helps YouTubers (like me) automatically remove silence in videos. It went viral on Reddit[1] but I realized later that building a video editing app with Electron (and not C++) was a bad choice. Library support video/audio editing was lacking.
Recut[2] is an app that basically does what Atomic Edits aimed to do, but actually succeeded. I think it's because it was a native Mac app which meant it had access to better libraries for editing videos. (That or I gave up too early on Atomic Edits.)
Orbital[3] is desktop app that allows you to search, filter, preview video files on your computer like YouTube. I posted on some subreddits and it had potential but I realized it wouldn't be enough to sustain me. It could've worked as a side-project but being as my main source of income was from YouTube ad-revenue, it wasn't worth it.
VideoHubApp[4] is a desktop app that does what Orbital aimed to do and actually earned a couple thousand dollars. It was started a few years earlier and was built with a similar tech stack.
All that is to say, I made desktop apps that had potential, but I did not have the time to spend making them feature complete.
[0] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/atomic-edits
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ohbl6i/i_made_a_des...
[2] https://getrecut.com/
[3] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/orbital
[4] https://videohubapp.com/en/
- Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
- Show HN: Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
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After quitting my job and going full-time on YouTube, I started accumulating a ton of media files. So I made an app to search, filter, and preview them.
As for the project, it’s open source - meaning the code is available for all to see, update, and report issues on GitHub (https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Orbital).
- An open-source, local-first desktop app that helps search, filter, and preview video files (like YouTube).
PDF.js
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Building W-9 Crafter
I first started building the app in the browser, using PDF.js and Download.js to take a PDF and edit it, and then download it to your computer.
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Parsing PDFs in Node.js
pdf2json is a module that transforms PDF files from binary to JSON format, using pdf.js for its core functionality. It also incorporates support for interactive form elements, enhancing its utility in processing and interpreting PDF content.
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Is it possible to port Edge's PDF Editor to other browsers or make your own custom one?
Why not PDF.js?
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How to Write a Cold Email
I'd think opening a PDF in your browser would be at the same risk-level you associate with going to any random URL. On Firefox at least, I'm pretty sure the built-in PDF viewer is simply JS parsing and rendering the PDF anyway -- nothing with elevated permissions:
https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
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Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery
The PDF features are actually an extension, just one built in as Firefox's default pdf viewer.
It's called pdf.js https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/
You can actually use this pdf viewer in another browser like Chrome if you'd like, there's a demo URL on there.
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PDF Chat with Node.js, OpenAI and ModelFusion
We use Mozilla's PDF.js via the pdfjs-dist NPM module to load pages from a PDF file. The loadPdfPages function reads the PDF file and extracts its content. It returns an array where each object contains the page number and the text of that page.
- Ask HN: Best toolkit to build custom pdf viewer?
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Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
The problem is that there simply wasn't a better option at the time.
Ogg Vorbis was a novelty at best, and it was the only decently widely adopted open source competitor for any of the items listed that was available at the time.
HTML5 was only just published when Chrome launched. So Flash was at that point the only option available to show a video in the browser (sure, downloading a RealPlayer file was always an option, but it was clunky, creators didn't like people being able to save stuff locally, and was also not open source). Chrome in fact arguably accelerated the process of getting web video open sourced: Google bought On2 in 2010 to get the rights to VP8 (the only decent H.264 competitor available at that point) so they could immediately open source it. The plan was in fact to remove H.264 from Chrome entirely once VP8/VP9 adoption ramped up[1], but that didn’t end up happening.
Flash was integrated into Chrome because people were going to use it anyway, and having Google distribute it at least let them both sandbox it and roll out automatic updates (a massive vector for malware at the time was ads pretending to be Flash updates, which worked because people were just that used to constant Flash security patches, most of which required a full reboot to apply; Chrome fixed both of those issues). Apple are the ones who ultimately dealt the death blow to Flash, and it was really just because Adobe could not optimize it for phone CPUs no matter what they tried (even the few Android releases of Flash that we got were practically unusable). That also further accelerated the adoption of open source HTML5 technologies.
PDF is an open source format, and has been since 2008. While I don't know if pressure from Google is what did it, that wouldn’t surprise me. Regardless, the Chrome PDF reader, PDFium, is open source[2] and Mozilla's equivalent project from 2011, PDF.js, is also open source.[3] Both of these projects replaced the distinctly closed source Adobe Reader plugin that was formerly mandatory for viewing PDFs in the browser.
Chrome is directly responsible for eliminating a lot of proprietary software from mainstream use and replacing it with high-quality open source tools. While they've caused problems in other areas of browser development that are worthy of criticism, Chrome's track record when it comes to open sourcing their tech has been very good.
[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-i...
[2]: https://github.com/chromium/pdfium
[3]: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
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How do Fix this issue while trying to save an edited PDF? (text gets really small and is rotated)(i'm using nightly)
Firefox Nightly is an unstable test version. You should report PDF issues to this GitHub repository.
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Firefox PDF Pen Editor: Disable Pen "Autocorrect" Feature
Open this page and click on New Issue to ask the developers of the PDF viewer: mozilla/pdf.js repository. Please post a link to your question here.
What are some alternatives?
GameDev - 👾 The code for my game dev + computer graphics experiments on YouTube. [Moved to: https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Gamedex]
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
atomic-edits - 🎬 A desktop app that automatically removes silence from videos.
pdfmake - Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
tailwind-clones - 🍃 Cloning the UIs' of popular websites with Tailwind CSS.
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
Papa Parse - Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input
pareto-mac - Automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
diff2html - Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)
video-cutter - Cut any video online using FFMPEG... no server needed ! (Thanks WebAssembly)
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment