doom-checkboxes VS ffmpeg.wasm

WebAssembly and checkboxes

If anyone wants to PR a fix for more browsers please do! (https://github.com/healeycodes/doom-checkboxes/issues/1). Otherwise, I'll probably look into this tomorrow.

There's already ffmpeg wasm. I've used it in projects. Works great.

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

There's a low-hanging fruit that I think would make ffmpeg more helpful for regular people.

There's a million terrible websites that offer file conversion services. They're ad-ridden, with god-knows-what privacy/security postures. There's little reason for users to need to upload their files to a third-party when they can do it locally. But getting them to download fiddly technical software is tough - and they're right to mistrust it.

So, there's a WASM version of ffmpeg, already working and hosted at Netlify [1]. It downloads the WASM bundle to your browser and you can run conversions/transformations as you wish, in your browser. Sandboxed and pretty performant too!

If this tool a) was updated regularly b) had a nicer, non-CLI UI for everyday users and c) was available at an easily-Googlable domain name - it would solve all the problems I mentioned above.

[1]: https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app/

As their github page says, based on https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app ...

I'm guessing no one did GPU-optimizations? I saw a web app (not an ffmpeg transpilation) that went clever and used WebGL so it can access the GPU and use its parallel processing capabilities...

OP just implemented https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm in their own frontend, nothing special really.

One that comes to mind is the WASM port of FFmpeg:

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

Another is the SQLite WASM project:

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

Also v86 for x86 machine virtualization in the web browser:

https://github.com/copy/v86

Possibly more interesting projects to be found here:

https://github.com/topics/wasm

I’d look seriously at ffmpeg wasm though… https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

It wasn't long after this I happened to come across FFmpeg ported to WebAssembly! I was a bit occupied with several other projects at the time, but I knew right away that I wanted to migrate my cumbersome script into a nice and dynamic web application, so I whipped up a little prototype that night.

Hey hey! I made this converter because I was fustrated with the existing options. Many of them work by sending the file to a server for processing, which is slow on low bandwidth and usually incurs restrictions or paywalls, and god knows what they do with my incriminating files. I found a library called FFmpeg.wasm that runs on Web Assembly, which I used in this project.