I built this for my own use case, and I think other people could benefit from it.It's essentially a Rust rewrite of the ffmpeg CLI command, but with a modern API and good defaults + a native HTML/CSS composition engine that's been fine tuned for speed and memory efficiency. Under the hood, it still uses the libav* codecs from ffmpeg, so it can still work on a variety of formats.Works very well...
I've been working with video encoding, subtitles and basically anything that is "layer things on top of videos" for many years now, and lately I started wondering if there was a more efficient way to do it without relying on the usual methods and libraries. Basically, every time you paint stuff over a video, you create the overlays with 'some' tool (something that generates cards as PNGs, or a headless browser for more complex animated designs.. or other techniques), and then use good old ffmpeg to merge the composition together, or eventually use ffmpeg's complex filtergraphs with all their quirks and limitations if you're desperate, but nobody does that anymore.
But what if ffmpeg could do proper composition, natively? That's probably a bit out of scope for them, so I set out to start rewriting ffmpeg's CLI in Rust with some extras.. because, why not. Of course, the codecs still comes from libav*, but everything above it is new: a planner that figure out the cheapest way to produce the output (frames with nothing drawn on them aren't re-encoded), a compositor with layers, keyframes, masks and transitions, and a layout engine for the part of CSS that is most commonly used: flexbox, gradients, shadows, clip paths, blend modes, and @keyframes played as written.
Now I have something that paints pretty animated graphics natively over videos very quickly, and without using playwright or chrominum. You can see some benchmarks here against two of the most common methods used to achieve this here: https://github.com/geneva-render/geneva/blob/main/docs/bench...
As you probably guessed, this was all written by Fable/Opus under my guidance. Just stating it plainly so you can decide whether to trust it or not. This is just the engine, and I have a couple of ideas on how to move it forward, but I'd like to hear some feedback before carrying on blindly, so feel free to reply here or get in touch.
Some rendered examples are in the repo and here: https://genevarender.com
In any case, 1hr of iPhone/day is way too strict for a teenager nowadays. I was lucky to be the 3rd child, and my parents didn’t really paid attention to how I was spending my time. I overdosed on a bunch of things as a kid: TV, videogames, my computer, the internet when I got it (I’m in my late 30s), but then I got over them, except computers, which became my profession.
On the other hand, people my age that were only allowed one hour of Nintendo per day as kids, are still craving the next PlayStation like grown up junkies. Last time I played a videogame I was maybe.. 22.
It's a iPhone news aggregator that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news stories based on how much they are shared in real-time, laying them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.
It's really interesting because it lets you find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and it puts you in a whole different point of view.
The bare bone MVP is currently available in US, UK and Italy. I'll soon release a new version with categorization and custom topics.
When I have time to read for a little longer and non-techie: The economist, guardian, the atlantic and other stuff in my mother tongue.
And of course if I want to read mainstream news I use my app http://newspo.st : it magically guess what news are trending on Twitter so you get what people are reading the most, which is surprisingly interesting. Still an early version, I'll soon introduce categories and custom topics as well. At the moment it's only available for iOS in US, UK and Italy.
This, I suppose, means each registrar plan to make a little more than a few thousands for each domain extension if they want to be profitable. They know already it's not going to be a widespread phenomena, otherwise the greedy bunch running ICANN would've charged a lot more.
Still I don't understand why the internet top-level domain control is in the hands of a private and fake non-profit organization, instead of being directly controlled by an international, third party organism such as the United Nations or something similar.
[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/47031-icann-selling-custom-top-...
I use an old school text editor to write html/js manually, and then maybe I play a bit with photoshop. Results are not jaw-dropping but not too shabby either, and I can put together a landing page in a couple of hours. ( eg. http://newspo.st )
So yes, I'm here just to brag about it. I'm a terrible person. :)
It allows you to find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and put you in a whole different point of view. I belive it's extremely interesting, and I'm trying to make the reading experience as enjoyable as possible.
The first raw version is available for iOS: http://newspo.st
I'm in the process of adding categorization and custom topic search as well.
I'd be happy with 1% of what they raised , anyone interested? :(
http://newspo.st/dev-preview.htmlI'd like to hear some feedback about this App I've been working on lately.It's exactly what everyone tells you not to do: a "news app", but I strongly believe this one is different: News are ranked by real-time Twitter popularity, you can see what people says on Twitter about a specific topic and you can download full articles as well. I think personalization...