Modfy

An open-source video transcoder in your browser using wasm

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An open-source video transcoder in your browser using wasm

7 followers

Modfy is a browser-based video tool that converts and compresses your videos without uploading your files anywhere. Powered by FFmpeg and Web Assembly.

Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Open Source

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Hi 👋 Product Hunt! I am Rahul, the maker of Modfy, and I couldn't be more excited to be sharing this service with you. 💡What is it? Modfy is a platform to make processing video easier on the web. An FFmpeg for the web 🤔 Why? I find myself quite frequently need to convert my video between formats or reduce their size or such, and this is always an unpleasant experience. It always involving google "mp4 to mov" or the such, then using one of these sites which upload my video files to their servers to process them. This has two main consequences: 1. I lose my privacy; they could store that video or add it to video or image datasets or even corrupt it. 2. There is a bandwidth cost allocated with this, in terms of uploading and downloading the file. The obvious solution to this is to use FFmpeg, but most people are not comfortable with command-line tools. On the other hand, Modfy uses Web Assembly and can process the video on your browser **without ever uploading the files.** This eliminates both of the above problems, but it also has other advantages: - It is Open Source and Free! - Use a CLUI(https://blog.repl.it/clui) so has the accessibility of a regular GUI but the scalability of a CLI. If you want to see what it's all about, then go check out the product. Leave some feedback, and if you would like to, you're welcome to DM me on Twitter or leave a comment below. 👇

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6yr ago

@cryogenicplanet Great tool! A very nice use of WebAssembly: bringing command line tools in the browser.

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6yr ago

@cryogenicplanet I have done something similar some time ago: compiling JPEG 2000 reader in WebAssembly and displaying very big images in the browser (too bad this work wasn't public, though).

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6yr ago

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@ogadaki Ooo, that's super cool. Maybe dig it up and make it public? Could be cool for people to learn from

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6yr ago

@cryogenicplanet At least there are some videos of talks where I present my work. Here is one, it is in French but maybe automatic translation can help: www.youtube.com/watch?v=drRaRRZ5AJk

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6yr ago

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@ogadaki This is super interesting but I think a technical presentation in subtitles will be a little harder than normal films, don't know how much I'll understand but will check it out

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6yr ago

Such a useful product! I really love how versatile this tool is, and appreciate the focus on privacy! Great job!

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6yr ago

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@govind_nair Thanks!

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6yr ago

Excellent work here! One day it would maybe I can contribute the “packaging portion” so you can also generate some streaming stuff too!

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6yr ago

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@nkrzemienski That would be super cool!

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6yr ago

Hi Rahul, is Modfy still an OSS project?

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5yr ago

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@school_4_ants Hey there is still an https://github.com/modfy/modfy.v... which is the video transcoder which this PH launch is referencing. However are newer projects are not OSS

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5yr ago

Fantastic product!

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6yr ago

Great Tool!!!!

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6yr ago

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