Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio ...
by g15jv2dp on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:00AM
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> Question, does it strip metadata? Because ideally that's what I'd expect from a "privacy-friendly" tool.
Why would you expect that? I expect privacy to mean that the service isn't harvesting my data. I wouldn't expect it to strip the tags from my music.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio ...
by Retr0id on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:16AM
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This tool is an ergonomic replacement for things `ffmpeg` and `imagemagick`. Among the privacy-conscious, these tools are the go-to for stripping unwanted metadata, so I'd want the same from a replacement.
Of course, ffmpeg can do a lot of things, and I wouldn't expect them all to be supported. But I do expect metadata stripping (at least as an option) from a tool with privacy in the headline.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio ...
by tommyjepsen on Thursday July 18, 2024 @10:35AM
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Hey! Yea, for mp4 its just ffmpeg -i and nothing else .. Good idea to optimize this. In general ffmpeg-wasm is a lot slower than FFmpeg run on your desktop, but let me see if I can improve on this.
Performance diff: https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app/docs/performance
Question, does it strip metadata? Because ideally that's what I'd expect from a "privacy-friendly" tool.
I let it "convert" one mp4 file into another, and it's taking a while, which makes me think it's doing a full re-encode. It might be worth adding logic to merely remux i.e. "-vcodec copy" where possible, as an optimisation.
Consider adding HEIC/HEIF image support, as well as JXL. Slightly less common, but all the more reason why someone would want to convert.