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Re:Show HN: Snapify – open-source Loom alternative by mmcclure on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:19PM (#36796170)
This is super cool! We built something in the same vein but using Mux as a way to dog food our products[1]. This is certainly doing more product-wise, though in terms of being similar shape-wise to Loom.

I noticed your demo example in your top comment isn’t working, which made me suspect you’re just using the raw MediaRecorder output, and sure enough. Unfortunately…that’s just not going to work for any “real” use case.

MediaRecorder is well known in the video infra world as being incredibly crappy videos, to the point of being difficult to transcode reliably much less just use directly as a video for playback. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s just no way of avoiding a proper transcode (if you care about the videos created from any supported browser being playable on the gamut of browsers).

[1] https://stream.new

Re:Show HN: Snapify – open-source Loom alternative by kinduff on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:26AM (#36798707)
I love the landing page! Great job!
Re:Show HN: Snapify – open-source Loom alternative by mmcclure on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:01AM (#36809851)
Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Snapify – open-source Loom alternative by marconlp on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:13AM (#36809915)
Thanks! I took a look at stream.new which is surprisingly similar. And yes, I am uploading and serving the raw MediaRecorder output, without any transcoding.

Did you by any chance try to view the demo using Safari? https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify/issues/12