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Muxide

Zero-dep pure Rust MP4 muxer (H.264/H.265/AV1, no FFmpeg)

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HN · launched Dec 17, 2025 · 11 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views

Niche: video production and processing tools · 243 launches, 40 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →

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  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Writing a zero-dependency MP4 container muxer in pure Rust supporting modern codecs (H.264, H.265, AV1) requires deep, byte-level mastery of the ISO base media file format specifications (ISO/IEC 14496-12/14/15).

What it would actually take: Implementation requires manually implementing the full ISO/IEC 14496-12/15 specifications in Rust, parsing elementary video bitstreams (SPS/PPS parameter sets, NAL units, OBU sequence headers for AV1), and building the container box tree (ftyp, moov, trak, mdia, minf, stbl, mdat) with precise sample table offsets, chunking, and timescale calculations without external C/FFmpeg dependencies.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2553 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1263 of 2554 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 47 days after the earliest competitor.

  • FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • Viddcut · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • frost · github · 2026-09-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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  • fumadocs-mv · github · 2026-10-17 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • sirocco · github · 2026-10-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Leonardo · hn · 2026-03-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59

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