Andrew_W

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by Andrew_W 2y ago
Man, with all of the anti-user "features" of social sharing apps, your interface is a breath of fresh air! I'll be trying out the open source version this weekend so I can share links with my nerdy friends more easily, but tr
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
I also took a peak at your code and saw the manifest. This would be a pretty awesome PWA :) I hope you keep at it!
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
This is awesome! Good job on it :) Wish you had a mailing list signup - I don't want to forget about this! I took a one month Spanish class in Mexico a few years ago. It was amazing for giving me a solid base, and your tool would be pe
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Yeah, and Spectre/Meltdown haven't helped. There are some pretty crazy security restrictions (no external scripts!) just to get ffmpeg running. I can't imagine the additional security precautions that would prevent exploits f
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Definitely a performance hit! Probably a combination of the lack of hardware acceleration and running in a JS virtual machine. I haven't checked the exact hit, but that's mostly because our focus for this tool was on people who wo
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Sorry for not responding sooner. That sounds like a great use case for us to handle! Although I think ffmpeg in the browser loses some efficiency over the command line. I think we added cropping as a possible future feature. I'll bet f
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Nope! It's all running client-side, so it uses a bit more bandwidth, but there's no way a serverless platform can compete with the cost :) If the tool is popular long term, we might do a serverless option to make it accessible to
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Interesting idea, like append the video to itself but reversed for a clean loop? I like this idea :)
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
True! When I first started building a video creation app, I was flailing around with google searches to find snippets to use. It was such a relief to spend an hour reading ffmpeg docs to understand how it works. And I'm still learning
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Oh, no, I have nothing there, sorry! haha I'm using ffmpeg.wasm, it's basically ffmpeg compiled for the browser, and it's a simple layer where you basically treat it like the ffmpeg command, eg: ffmpeg.run(['-i', &#
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Emailing you now :)
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
If you send me an e-mail (andrew@<domain in link>), I can dig in a bit more and let you know when I add it :)
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Hey, this feedback is great! And it isn't even too difficult to add - we have live clipped playback in our main app. When it failed to load the video, did it show a convert option that failed to load it as well? I think there are some
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
That's awesome! Do you have an example ffmpeg command you run? We're trying to keep this tool super simple for our end users, but I think we might be able to add a webm preset. If you'd like me to look into it, drop me an ema
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Seriously! We were trying to build our video editor in the same style (eg like tinypng and GIF optimizers). It's so cool to do it all in the browser! I even built a simple landing page creator that let you change text and images, then
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Yeah. My biggest question when I started building this was whether there was enough in the wasm to support the features we wanted to build. I've been really happy with the results so far!
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Yeah, webm is already built in to ffmpeg, we just had a pretty limited focus for our initial release. Even our mp4s aren't very well-optimized right now. If you work with video a bit and think this tool might be helpful to you, let me
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Yeah, that's definitely an issue! We had to "optimize" loading it twice. The first time, I moved it from auto-loading to when the user clicks convert to save on bandwidth. The second time, I moved it to after a file is select
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Oh that tool is neat, and they have a super slick UI! Our tool definitely isn't as slick, but I think that has its benefits too. Like our trim interface doesn't look as nice, but shows a live preview of where you're at in the
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Yeah, SharedArrayBuffers have been back and forth! - First they were disabled due to Spectre. - Chrome reenabled them. - New HTTP headers were added for cross-origin resource partitioning. - FF/Chrome are both requiring those headers (
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Sorry if you were having trouble because the website was down. We upgraded the server and it seems to be doing a little better! But also get it if you mean you're not in a good place to test the tool at the moment haha
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Thanks! DO made it kind of easy to upgrade the virtual machine haha.
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
It's up - for now :)
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
Uggh yes. Which is awesome, but... damn! haha Might need to delete and repost later?
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by Andrew_W 5y ago
* VM is upgraded - we're back :) * Hi HN, I love new web tech, and was excited to see ffmpeg ported to WebAssembly so decided to build a free tool that uses it to: - Clip/trim videos - Overlay text and images - Resize - Create GIF
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Show HN: WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos(vidds.co)
104 points by Andrew_W 5y ago|49 comments
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by Andrew_W 6y ago
Some local San Diego IndieHackers and I were excited when MicroConf released all of their talks, but we wanted a way to easily filter through talks on specific topics. So we decided to build it. Using no-code (Webflow with Jetboost), we cat
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Show HN: The Unofficial MicroConf Video Directory(microconf-vault.webflow.io)
3 points by Andrew_W 6y ago|1 comments
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by Andrew_W 7y ago
Hey everyone! I've built an app that uses the browser and CSS styling to create videos (mp4/gif), meant for stuff like landing pages and social media. I've wanted to improve presentation and engagement in the projects and pro
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Show HN: Web-Based Video Creator(brisa.io)
4 points by Andrew_W 7y ago|1 comments

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