jackbeck

This is top priority. In theory it should work, but there are few bugs still preventing it from working.

Hey everyone, creator here. I had planned on launching here at some point in the future, but someone beat me to it.

The motivation behind creating Mastershot was because when searching for a simple free video editor to use, they always hit me with either a low-res export or heavily watermarked or an exorbitant subscription fee. Mastershot is able to be free because it uses an WASM port of Ffmpeg.

Currently I only support chrome because of a weird bug in FF that is causing the ffmpeg port to break. I’m working on an approach to make Mastershot work cross-browser the same way that the video trimmer and audio extractor tools work.

1) It doesn't upload/download anything. All transcoding/trimming happens in the browser. 2) There might be a slight loss in terms of quality seeing as it's using lossy encoding, but it shouldn't be noticeable to the human eye.

Hey HN, this is the second browser-based media oriented tool I created. With this tool, you can select a segment of video you wish to extract from a larger video. It works across all browsers, but it can be a bit slow in Firefox.

EDIT: It's important to note that there your files are not uploaded anywhere. All trimming is happening completely client-side.

Yeah, that seems pretty easy to accomplish.

What do you mean by file caching?

That's 100% true. For some people. People who have ffmpeg installed would know doubt find it easier to enter the command for this, but the majority of people don't have it downloaded. More than that, most people don't find CLIs to be the most intuitive interfaces out there so I figured creating a GUI interface would be helpful.

Technically speaking, ffmpeg could accomplish 99% of what I'm building at https://mastershot.app/, but GUI > CLI for most people.

This does not use tabCapture for any audio processing. As far as I know tabCapture is only available in extension context.

Believe me, I feel the same way. I launched the first version of this tool to gauge interest. As we speak a new version has gone up with complete cross-browser support. Although it isn’t easy that the browser with the most privacy issues has the most features...

I have a version up that in theory should support Safari (both desktop and mobile). The only limitation at the moment is that there's no progress indicator.

Edit: limitation is gone, it should work 100% now

It theoretically should also work with Firefox, but for some reason that I haven’t yet discovered it’s not working. It requires SharedArrayBuffer to be enabled on the browser and that’s currently only Chrome/FF.

Yeah, I get an error saying something like f.asm is undefined and the maintainer is MIA. I’m taking a look at creating a form of the project and seeing what can be done at some point.

I’m working on a solution for this, I hope to have this working cross browser within a week.

There seems to be an issue with compiling FFmpeg to wasm which prevents it from working on Firefox

Thanks for that, I’m on it.

Hey HN, This is the first of many media oriented tools I plan on creating that are focused on user privacy. With this tool, you can extract audio from any video. Currently it only supports Chrome or Chromium based browser seeing as the underlying tech uses SharedArrayBuffer.

Well it all depends on the reason you're preserving your legacy. For the most part one would preserve their legacy for their children/grandchildren. Today's generation are more than ever more technologically driven. Think to yourself, do you think that a 8-18 year old want to pick up a book or go on an interactive journey of their grandparent's life.

Secondly, the second you put your legacy on paper, that's it. You can no longer update it with more memories. It's frozen in that state. With this website, they'd be able to continuously update it with stories, photos, etc.

Maybe "preserving their legacy" wasn't the correct term to use. On this website, the person will be directed down memory lane prompted to answer questions, add stories, family members, friends, childhood memories, photos, etc.

Additionally, children, parents, and relatives will all be able to link up their own personal accounts to build an accumulated family legacy.

But your point is valid, however. The older generation do like tangible items which is why an additional feature of the website would be to generate a memory album book from the information they've already provided.