FFmpeg.wasm In-Browser Video Conversion
Details
- External ID
- 45785324
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- FFmpeg.wasm In-Browser Video Conversion
- Website domain
- ethan.dev
- Launched
- Nov. 1, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- in-browser video conversion with ffmpeg
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a single-page web app wrapping the pre-built `ffmpeg.wasm` library in the browser to run video transcoding client-side.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 277 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #223 of 278 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Leonardo · hn · 2026-03-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- FFmpeg-Plus · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- How far can you push file conversion into the browser? · hn · 2026-02-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FFmpeg Engineering Handbook · hn · 2025-12-01 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- FFmpeg WebCLI · hn · 2026-06-04 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Ez FFmpeg · hn · 2025-12-27 · 420 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I ported Xonotic to WASM · hn · 2026-06-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HyperFrames · hn · 2026-04-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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- No other launches for this product.
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